Pembentukan Karakter Religius pada Santri Berkebutuhan Khusus di Pesantren

The study aims to find out how the process of forming religious character in gifted students and what religious characters are formed in gifted students at the Salafiyyah Islamic Boarding School Nurul 'Ulum Gresik. This research is a qualitative descriptive research. The techniques used by researchers to collect data are observation, interviews, and documentation. The results of this study indicate that the process of forming religious character in students with special needs goes through 3 stages, namely the learning stage, the stage of awareness formation, and the stage of forming habits, while the religious character that is formed in students with special needs consists of the character of worship which includes the ability to worship obligatory prayers and sunnah, the character of jihad (seriousness) which includes himmah (willingness) to worship, study, and help others, the character of discipline which can be seen in the discipline of students with special needs in studying and worshiping, the independent character which is seen from their independence from other people, and the character social care as seen from their concern for others and the environment.