Bayazid Bastami, Abu al-Hasan Kharaqāni and ‘Alā al-Dowlah Semnāni are three distinguished Iranian mystics who lived in Ghomess Province. They have significant places in Islamic mysticism. A dominant concept in their works is the concept of Light, which is even observable in the titles of their works. Bayazid and Kharaqani named their works al-Noor and Noor al-Oloom respectively. Relying ...

Muslim Mystics were always seeking for a new understanding of the Qurān and religious concepts in order to achieve the truth. They are certainly benefiting from the assumptions such as the meaning of the Qurānic verses for discovering significance. One of the proposed Qurānic concepts among the mystics, especially in mystics of the third and fourth centuries, was the mystical term “Tawakkol”. T...

At the beginning of his magnum opus al-Hekmat al-Muta’aleiat fi al-Asfar al-Aqliiat, Mulla Sadra says that he has nominated and arranged his book according to “the four journeys” of the Mystics. What he and the Mystics say on these journeys reminds those familiar with Greek philosophy of Plato’s Phaedrus and Republic (Journey of souls onto sky and the Allegory of Cave, respectively). In spite o...