The stucco decorations of the 8th century AH are considered as the most significant decorations of this era’s architecture which has made the Ilkhanid period known as the Stucco Age. These stuccos were implemented in most parts of buildings with different uses including exterior parts, gable, archs of Mihrab, surfaces of the walls and margins, as a simple reinforced type in design and construct...

Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Muhammad (Ahmad) Daylami (391 AH.) is the writer of the first and oldest book in Islamic-Iranian Sufism about Divine love. There seems to be inadequate data about biography of this uncelebrated and theorist Sufi. Through studying his work (‘Atf al- Alf…) and some of his teachers whom he wrote about (e.g. Muhammad ibn Khafif known as Sheykh-i Kabir), it can be deduced that h...

Islamic Mysticism and Sufism is the heritage of Islamic Civilization Which from the beginning till now, faced with many evolutions and due to inner factors, had different branches. in different definitions of Sufism by Sufis. In this article we try to investigate these definitions by content analysis approach. By studying the valid sufi texts from beginning to 13th century AH, and by extracting...

Glasswork of the Islamic era in the 5th and 6th centuries AH/AD 11th and 12th centuries in Islamic lands reached its peak of growth and prosperity and was accompanied by innovations in the field of production and decoration. After this period this industry inspired glassmaking of the whole world. Studying the features of Islamic glassmaking in its heyday with the aim of introducing and classify...

Baghawi's Mo'jaem al-Sahabah is one of the most important sources of 3rd and 4th century AH which like other epistemological resources in the field of history, is not a transparent and neutral work reflecting social, political and religious realities, but is a book that has hidden or distorted facts. These sorts of sources are not accurate and objective in reflecting the facts, but are somehow ...