Manuscripts that teach a moderate religious understanding are considered capable
of warding off ideological conflicts and maintaining security and stability. This
paper shows how the strategy of Muslim philologists to moderate religious
understanding, especially in the Qur'an and hadith understanding, through the
introduction of ancient manuscripts packaged in the online study of the Ngariksa
YouTube channel. Using the digital humanities approach of David M. Berry, Ngariksa’s activity is a part of the socio-cultural practice as a system of knowledge
that is carried out in a plural manner, in the sense that information, materials, archives, and documents that are digitally documented can influence the
institutionalization of science mediated by new technology, such as computing and
internet. In the socio-cultural practice in the digital space, it is necessary to change
the character of the Indonesian Muslim community in a more moderate. This change
is due to the classical narratives containing moderate past knowledge from moderate
figures. In this context, Ngariksa presents Ibrahim al-Kurani's perspective on Sufism
that is based on the outer and inner meanings of the texts of the Qur'an and Hadith. An understanding based on just outward meaning is vulnerable to religious
extremism