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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 […]

An Analysis of Parallelism and Chiasmus of Rumi’s Masnavi based on the Synoptic structuralism of Dr Salman Safavi

  Saeid Khanabadi Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran Key words: Masnavi, Rumi, Safavi, Persian literature, Sufism. Since Masnavi was written in ​​the thirteenth century, this masterpiece of the Persian literature has been the subject of thousands of criticisms and analyses in various fields and from various perspectives. Literary critics and masters of philosophy and wisdom, in […]