kashf al-mahjoub is the first persian independent mystical text, written by abu al-hasan ali bin osman al-jolabi al-hojwiri al-qaznavi which contains valuable information about different subjects of sufism. since one of the effective methods on which one can understand a sufi’s viewpoints and can figure out his ideology and even his anagogic and mystical psychology is to analyze his esoteric in...

as one of the most important and fundamental concepts in the divine religions, eternity and immortality after death has always been paid too much attention by religious thinkers mainly muslim scholars and mystics from philosophical, mystical ,theological, and quranic approaches. since mulla sadra's transcendent theosophy is not far from islamic mysticism and even some parts of its general ...

the non-linear order of revelations is often considered by many scholars to signify lack of coherence, disunity, and fragmentariness. it seems that 'coherence' and the related terms have veiled a significant linguistic feature of the qur’an, namely, the non-linear nature of revelations, which might be used to make a distinction between ordinary and quranic discourse. we will argue that to unvei...

besides the necessity of gaining the prerequisites of tafsir, the views of the early scholars about these prerequisites also had to be considered. the present article is to make clear that most of the exegetes did not really meet the prerequisites mentioned in their own preface. it also discuses about the preliminary sciences to tafsir which may be classified into seven general groups with some...

levels of knowledge enjoy a significant status in the minds of the majority of western and eastern thinkers; and great thinkers have engaged in detailed discussions in this area. the present research has scrutinized this issue from the viewpoints of two eminent islamic and western thinkers, mullā ṣadrā and spinoza. it claims that although these two scientists belong to different intellectual tr...

As the next generation of engineers, engineering students at the local level have specific views on what key issues should be addressed in the coming decades. Results of a University of Kansas survey completed by over 220 engineering students from sophomores to graduate students in seven engineering majors from five departments are reported, analyzed, and compared with the 14 Grand Challenges f...

the etymology of the qurʾānic vocabulary, unlike some other qurʾānic fields, has remained in the traditional paradigm. even jeffrey’s the foreign vocabulary of the quran, could not make an appropriate reaction among muslim scholars, as has been seen in the wake of nöldeke’s geschichte des qorans or goldzher’s richtungen in the muslim world. needless to say that the scholarly (rather than ideolo...

from a long time ago, religious scholars have been competing to best determine the very miracles of the holy quran. from among these scholars some have tended to its language, style and structure while some other have been absorbed by its scientific miracles. the present study is an attempt to analyze one of these miracles, i.e. miracle of sound. quran was first revealed unto muhammad (pbuh) in...