the basic aim of this research is description and deduction of principles, aims, and methods based on the epistemological foundations of farabi in fusus al-hikmah. to get this aim, the method was documentary analysis and deduction. findings show that: necessary being is aware of all contingent beings, there is a unity between the essence of god as a ultimate truth and his knowledge, necessary b...

The main goal of this functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study was to identify the neural correlates of a mystical experience. The brain activity of Carmelite nuns was measured while they were subjectively in a state of union with God. This state was associated with significant loci of activation in the right medial orbitofrontal cortex, right middle temporal cortex, right inferior an...

in this research, it has been tried to determine and introduce the relationship between the mystical experience and paradoxical expression. in the first section the major function of these two categories in language has been considered. in the other section some significant questions have been scientifically answered. these questions are: is the paradoxical expression the internal characteristi...

abdullah al-baradouni and jalal ad-din muhammad mawlawi suggest some common ontological themes which are represented in themes like “freedom”, “astonishment”, “estrangement” “death”.  there are lots of similarities between two poets. two poets represent these themes with a sincere mystical approach. theme of freedom is represented in the  poems of two poets by a mystical approach and it means b...