Nurkhalis2019-09-252019-09-252016-02-232015http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/234944This paper discusses the positivication of asceticism in Islam with classical and modern paradigm approaches. Asceticism is known as the highest moral or the ascetic achievement in order to interpret the existence of religious life in his conviction. Asceticism is comparable with the height ethical or altitude ethos. Asceticism is perceived not turn to unwillingness to work is symptomatic of lack of grace. Asceticism in Islam is perceived as an ascetic self-alienation and identified with faqîr, jû’i or ‘uzlah. Thus the introduction of asceticism in Islam called zuhud can do iron cage entry in the past, whereas contemporary Islamic asceticism must be included in iron caging of modernity. Islamic asceticism motivated by ethos and ethic which is socio-centric not egocentric only for self-perfection and self-righteousness. The style of Islamic asceticism is not stagnant zuhud but moderate zuhud. Thus moderate zuhud is identical with productive and participatory zuhud.indWith permission of the license/copyright holdermodernityIslamZuhudAsceticismCultural ethicsCultural/intercultural ethicsReligious ethicsSpirituality and ethicsMethods of ethicsTheological ethicsPhilosophical ethicsJournal volume