The purpose of this essay is to critically review the remarkably unique account Desmond Tutu’s life presented by Michael Battle in his book “Desmond Tutu: A Spiritual Biography South Africa’s Confessor.” central contention that shifts paradigm biographical research about Tutu beyond popular trope “political priest” “freedom fighter-mystic.” Through a careful filtering via three stages mysticism...

In an attempt to revisit two architectural pieces of commemoration designed by influential architects, the Garden Exile Daniel Libeskind and Memorial for Murdered Jews Europe Peter Eisenman, it is worthwhile recall Sigmund Freud’s 1925 essay “A Note Upon ‘Mystic Writing-Pad”. This paper elaborates on association between writing memory introduces how these architects use topography while placing...

In the field of English literature, William Butler Yeats is greatest poet and connection between nineteenth twentieth centuries. He a multifaceted person who lyric poet, shaman, mythologist, romantic. with political agenda (to small extent); prophetic outlook mystic philosophy; expertise dramaturgy experiments. The aim this paper to investigate impact India Hinduism on his poetry. It claims tha...

Abstract: Mystic literature (Irfān) in general and Sufi literature in particular has always been alluring to the scholars interestingly working in different fields from literary, religious, philosophical, historical to other fields which may have little in common. Among Sufi theologians, Farid ud-Din Attar Neishabouri is the one whom no one has ever been able to surpass in creating works which ...

This article articulates a mystically motivated apophatic subjectivity that emerges from Simone Weil’s life and thought. It does so genealogically, via excursions into PseudoDionysius’s and Meister Eckhart’s negative theologies. These genealogical excursions expose Weil’s resonances with and differences from these earlier thinkers of Christian apophasis. To highlight these differences, this art...

Abstract We show that braided Cherednik algebras introduced by Bazlov and Berenstein are cocycle twists of rational the imprimitive complex reflection groups $G(m,p,n)$, when m is even. This gives a new construction mystic which have Artin–Schelter regular rings quantum polynomial invariants. As an application this result, we algebra has finite-dimensional representation if only its counterpart...

The article is devoted to the work of Mahmud Kashani (d. 735/1334-35), who was a sheikh Suhravardiya Sufi order and author several significant works. object analysis one parts his most famous — prose treatise “The lamp that indicates true path, key sufficient amount [of mystical knowledge]”. deals with religious views scientific heritage Kashani. A commented translation part first section “On L...