VISUAL ICONOGRAPHY AND PERFORMATIVE SEMIOTICS IN A PEGON JAVANESE NAQSHBANDĪYAH AL-MRIKIYAH MANUSCRIPT
Al-A raf Jurnal Pemikiran Islam dan Filsafat December 30, 2025 Atika Ulfia Adlina, Fathul Mufid
A 1954 Javanese Sufi manuscript written in Pegon script within the Naqshbandīyah al-Mrikīyah lineage articulates Naqshbandī metaphysics through Javanese mystical idioms. Using a hermeneutic–semiotic framework that combines Ricoeur's textual configuration model with Peircean triadic analysis, the manuscript's lexical formations and sixteen doctrinal and contemplative diagrams were examined. Pegon terminology and Javanese expressions such as kemrenthek operate as affective-semiotic modulators in dhikr and murāqabah. The diagrams function as epistemic icons that formalize interior states and encode sequential logics of Naqshbandī contemplative praxis. The work advances understanding of how Pegon texts vernacularize Sufi metaphysics into localized semiotic architectures.