Nurchalis Sofyan
Lahir 1972; aktif sejak awal 2000-anBorn 1972; active since the early 2000s
Nurchalis Sofyan, juga ditulis Nur Chalis Sofyan, adalah ahli sastra Arab di Fakultas Adab dan Humaniora UIN Ar-Raniry. Ia menulis bab pembuka Ensiklopedi Pemikiran Ulama Aceh (2004) tentang Teungku Chik Pante Kulu, ulama dan penyair Hikayat Prang Sabi.
Nurchalis Sofyan, also written Nur Chalis Sofyan, is a scholar of Arabic literature at the Faculty of Adab and Humanities, UIN Ar-Raniry. He wrote the opening chapter of the Ensiklopedi Pemikiran Ulama Aceh (2004) on Teungku Chik Pante Kulu, the ulama and poet of the Hikayat Prang Sabi.
Nurchalis Sofyan lahir di Indrapuri, Aceh Besar, pada 15 April 1972. Ia menimba ilmu di Pondok Modern Darussalam Gontor, Jawa Timur, sebelum melanjutkan studi sarjana di Fakultas Adab IAIN Ar-Raniry, Banda Aceh. Gelar magister dalam bidang sastra Arab ia peroleh dari UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, dan kemudian ia juga meraih gelar doktor. Dalam berbagai publikasi namanya ditulis Nurchalis Sofyan maupun Nur Chalis Sofyan.
Ia mengajar di Fakultas Adab, kini Fakultas Adab dan Humaniora, IAIN dan kemudian UIN Ar-Raniry, terutama pada Program Studi Bahasa dan Sastra Arab. Ia juga tercatat sebagai penelaah (reviewer) jurnal Lisanuna, jurnal ilmu bahasa Arab dan pembelajarannya di UIN Ar-Raniry. Pada 2004 biografi ensiklopedi mencatatnya sebagai anggota Yayasan Naskah Nusantara (Yanassa), sebuah jejak keterlibatannya dalam dunia pernaskahan.
Bidang keahliannya adalah kritik sastra Arab modern. Ia menulis "Pendekatan Semiotik dalam Penelitian Sastra Arab" untuk buku "Dimensi Metodologis Ilmu Sosial dan Humaniora 3" (2015) yang disunting Misri A. Muchsin, sebuah artikel berbahasa Arab tentang novel al-Arwah al-Mutamarridah karya Kahlil Gibran dalam Jurnal Ilmiah Islam Futura 18(1) (2018), dan makalah "Nationalism in Anis Couchane's Poem Fii Baladi" pada konferensi ICCLAS (2019). Kajiannya juga menjangkau karya Ghassan Kanafani, "Umm Saad" (Adabiya 25(1), 2023), serta cerpen-cerpen Taufiq al-Hakim (2023 dan 2026). Artikel "The Arabic Language Contribution to the Istinbath in Islamic Law of Acehnese Scholars" (Samarah 6(1), 2022) menunjukkan perhatiannya pada peran bahasa Arab dalam penalaran hukum ulama Aceh.
Sumbangan paling langsung Nurchalis bagi studi Aceh adalah bab pembuka ensiklopedi, "Teungku Chik Pante Kulu: Ulama dan Penyair Motivator Perang Aceh" (hlm. 1–30). Bab itu merekonstruksi riwayat Teungku Chik Haji Muhammad Pante Kulu, ulama kelahiran Pidie yang belajar di dayah Tiro dan Makkah, dan membaca Hikayat Prang Sabi bait demi bait sebagai karya sastra sekaligus teks motivasi jihad melawan Belanda. Latar keilmuannya dalam sastra Arab membuatnya peka terhadap hubungan antara tradisi puisi Arab dengan hikayat Aceh. Dengan bab ini, dimensi sastra masuk ke jantung proyek ensiklopedi tentang pemikiran ulama.
Bab itu juga memperlihatkan cara kerja seorang ahli sastra Arab. Nurchalis menekankan bahwa Pante Kulu gemar membaca penyair masa awal Islam seperti Hassan ibn Tsabit, Abdullah ibn Malik, dan Ka'ab ibn Zuhair, serta menukil bait-bait Hassan ibn Tsabit tentang persiapan pembebasan Makkah sebagai model syair pengobar semangat pasukan. Hikayat dibaca secara hermeneutik dan dikaitkan dengan konteks politik 1873, termasuk surat-menyurat sultan dengan komisaris Belanda Nieuwenhuijzen menjelang agresi pertama. Dengan demikian, Hikayat Prang Sabi ditempatkan dalam dua horizon sekaligus: tradisi puisi Arab-Islam dan sejarah konkret Perang Aceh.
Pada 2004, ketika ensiklopedi terbit melalui Ar-Raniry Press, biografi singkat di bagian akhir buku memperkenalkan Nurchalis sebagai dosen Fakultas Adab, alumnus Pondok Modern Gontor dan Fakultas Adab IAIN Ar-Raniry, magister sastra Arab UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, serta anggota Yanassa. Penempatan babnya sebagai pembuka seluruh buku menjadikan Teungku Chik Pante Kulu dan Hikayat Prang Sabi pintu masuk pembaca ke dalam narasi tentang 26 ulama Aceh abad ke-19 dan ke-20.
Nurchalis Sofyan was born in Indrapuri, Aceh Besar, on 15 April 1972. He studied at the Pondok Modern Darussalam Gontor in East Java before taking his first degree at the Faculty of Adab of IAIN Ar-Raniry, Banda Aceh. He earned a master's degree in Arabic literature from UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta and later a doctorate. His name appears in publications both as Nurchalis Sofyan and as Nur Chalis Sofyan.
He teaches at the Faculty of Adab, now the Faculty of Adab and Humanities, of IAIN and later UIN Ar-Raniry, mainly in the Arabic Language and Literature programme. He is also listed as a reviewer for Lisanuna, UIN Ar-Raniry's journal of Arabic linguistics and its teaching. In 2004 the encyclopaedia's biography recorded him as a member of the Yayasan Naskah Nusantara (Yanassa, the Nusantara Manuscript Foundation), a trace of his involvement with manuscript studies.
His field is modern Arabic literary criticism. He wrote "Pendekatan Semiotik dalam Penelitian Sastra Arab" (A Semiotic Approach in Arabic Literary Research) for the volume "Dimensi Metodologis Ilmu Sosial dan Humaniora 3" (2015), edited by Misri A. Muchsin; an Arabic-language article on Kahlil Gibran's novel al-Arwah al-Mutamarrida in Jurnal Ilmiah Islam Futura 18(1) (2018); and the paper "Nationalism in Anis Couchane's Poem Fii Baladi" at the ICCLAS conference (2019). His studies extend to Ghassan Kanafani's "Umm Saad" (Adabiya 25(1), 2023) and to the short stories of Tawfiq al-Hakim (2023 and 2026). "The Arabic Language Contribution to the Istinbath in Islamic Law of Acehnese Scholars" (Samarah 6(1), 2022) shows his interest in the role of Arabic in the legal reasoning of Acehnese ulama.
Nurchalis's most direct contribution to Aceh studies is the encyclopaedia's opening chapter, "Teungku Chik Pante Kulu: Ulama dan Penyair Motivator Perang Aceh" (Teungku Chik Pante Kulu: Ulama and Poet who Motivated the Aceh War, pp. 1–30). The chapter reconstructs the life of Teungku Chik Haji Muhammad Pante Kulu, a Pidie-born ulama who studied at the Tiro dayah and in Mecca, and reads the Hikayat Prang Sabi stanza by stanza as both literature and a text motivating jihad against the Dutch. His training in Arabic literature makes him attentive to the links between the Arabic poetic tradition and the Acehnese hikayat. Through this chapter the literary dimension enters the heart of an encyclopaedia devoted to the thought of the ulama.
The chapter also shows the working method of a scholar of Arabic literature. Nurchalis stresses that Pante Kulu was fond of the poets of early Islam, such as Hassan ibn Thabit, Abdullah ibn Malik and Ka'b ibn Zuhayr, and quotes verses by Hassan ibn Thabit on the preparations for the conquest of Mecca as a model of poetry that rouses an army. The hikayat is read hermeneutically and tied to the political context of 1873, including the sultan's correspondence with the Dutch commissioner Nieuwenhuijzen on the eve of the first invasion. The Hikayat Prang Sabi is thus placed in two horizons at once: the Arabic-Islamic poetic tradition and the concrete history of the Aceh War.
In 2004, when the encyclopaedia appeared from Ar-Raniry Press, the short biography at the end of the book introduced Nurchalis as a lecturer at the Faculty of Adab, an alumnus of Gontor and of the IAIN Ar-Raniry Faculty of Adab, a master's graduate in Arabic literature from UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, and a member of Yanassa. Placing his chapter at the very start made Teungku Chik Pante Kulu and the Hikayat Prang Sabi the reader's gateway into the account of 26 Acehnese ulama of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Gagasan kunciKey ideas
Sastra sebagai motivasi perjuanganLiterature as motivation for struggle
Hikayat Prang Sabi dibaca sebagai karya sastra sekaligus teks pembangkit semangat perang sabil.The Hikayat Prang Sabi is read as both literature and a text rousing the spirit of holy war.
Semiotika sastra ArabSemiotics of Arabic literature
Pendekatan semiotik membuka lapisan makna dalam puisi dan prosa Arab modern.A semiotic approach opens layers of meaning in modern Arabic poetry and prose.
Bahasa Arab dan istinbathArabic and legal reasoning
Penguasaan bahasa Arab menjadi fondasi penalaran hukum ulama Aceh.Command of Arabic underpins the legal reasoning of Acehnese ulama.
Posisi dalam kerangkaPlace in the framework
Tokoh, lembaga, dan konsep yang paling dekat dengan entri ini, beserta sifat hubungannya.The figures, institutions and concepts closest to this entry, and how they relate to it.
Pertanyaan reflektifReflective question
Bagaimana Hikayat Prang Sabi memadukan tradisi sastra Arab-Islam dengan bahasa dan kebutuhan perang Aceh?How does the Hikayat Prang Sabi combine the Arabic-Islamic literary tradition with the language and needs of the Aceh War?
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