There are some expressions and terms in the speeches of mystics which represent their world-view and recognition i.e. a kind of recognition which is a personal experience of every mystic. Because of asceticism and purification of his carnal soul, he is inspired and favored by God, and receives a spiritual state that cannot be put into words. Inevitably, he uses a symbolic language in order to c...

This article tries to elucidate Kosuth’s intention in the presentation on conceptual art. It focuses on an explanation about his opposition on aesthetics and formalism with regard to the Wittgensteinian origin of his measurements. For evaluation of what this artist said and what he performed in his artistic  works, we concentrate on the artist’s article entitled “art after philosophy”. We also ...

In Islamic thought, imagination has a special importance and place in artistic creation. The nature of imagination has created such opportunity to realize this fact the each spiritual affair to be imagined should occur partially and tangibly in imagination. In fact, the imagination is the interface between meaning and material and its images, on one hand, are similar to the matter and on the ot...

Haydar Ibn Ali Ibn Haydar, known as Sayyid Haydar Āmoli, is the philosopherand mystic of the eighth century AH and is the author of Tafsir al-Mohit al-Azam. He wrote this exegesis toward the end of his life in which he referred to many traditions narrated by the Immaculate. Hadiths have been reported in Al-Mohit al-Azamin different forms and ways. Most of these hadiths have been reported by par...

Gnosis (Mysticism) is a philosophy and meditation school leading the way farer through the reality and truth recognition on the basis of gnostics’ intectual intuition to attain his aim. Gnostics adjusted Qorānic concepts and prophetic sayings to the man’s inner state and inner world, and ultimately offered a perfect thought. This unique characteristic is clearly revealed in Mowlānā and ibn Fār...

Heidegger’s Art thinking is the result of his later thought. But the death-thinking is attendant with “Being thinking” in the whole of his thought. In fundamental ontology, “Being” is understood through “Dasein”. The problem of Dasein historicity and temporality led heidegger to contemplate about death. After “turning,” death thinking, it was followed through the “Event (Ereignis) thinking”. In...