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Mulla Sadra’s Epistemology and the Philosophy of Physics

Caner K. Dagli The George Washington University, USA     Abstract In response to the philosophical speculation that has accompanied the empirical findings of twentieth-century physics, the contemporary philosopher and mathematician Wolfgang Smith has introduced a distinction between what he calls the corporeal and physical worlds, the former being that which is accessible to us […]

Rūmī’s Path of Realization

William C. Chittick Stony Brook University, USA Transcendent Philosophy Journal, Volume 8 . December 2007, pp: 1-18. London Academy of Iranian Studies   Abstract   One of the key terms employed in defining the nature of the Islamic intellectual tradition is taḥqīq, “realization” or “verification”. Literally, the word means to search out the ḥaqq of […]

Department of comparative Upaniśadic literature and Islamic philosophy and Sufism at the London Academy of Iranian,

Allameh Tabatabai has a famous sentence that says: the scent of monotheism can be heard from the Upanishads. Upanis̩adic literature is the great treasure of spiritual wisdom in the Indic knowledge system. It is denoted as the Jñāna-Kān̩d̩a in the Vedic Literature. Basically spiritual knowledge is preached in this literature; therefore it is also called […]

The Study of the Principles of Iranian-Islamic Art

Hasti Safavi, The University of Exeter Lecture presented on 24th September 2019, at the Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies, Moscow Abstract: This paper examines the three fundamental principles for the study of Iranian-Islamic art, which includes art history, philosophy of art and various types of art. Iranian art can be divided into pre-Islam and post-Islam. […]

Mysticism: Commonwealth Cultural Foundation of Iran and Indonesia

     Dr. Mohammad Ali Rabbani[1]   Abstract : The role of the factor of Sufism and mysticism in the Islamicization process in southeast Asia is very important, and solid evidence of non-denial also implies this role. Islam entered South-Eastern Asia at a time when Hinduism and Buddhism dominated widespread parts of the region, and […]