One of the most important subjects dealt with in Islamic mysticism is known to be the subject of the seal of the friends, khatam al-awlia. The main question of the paper has centered on Ibn Arabi’s thought on the seal of the friends. It is commonly viewed that he has known himself as the seal of the friends. Again one can see clearly the same title for Isa, the mesih, in his works. In this ...

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...

One of the methods for Quranic commentary is nowadays regarded as Quran to Quran commentary method. The method is originally known to be that of the Prophet and Immams when commenting holey Quran. The study includes a brief comparison between Al-Tafsir ul-Qurani lil-Quran and Al-Mizan fi tafsir al-Quran respectively by Abdolkarim Khatib and Mohammadhosein Tabatabaie. As the commentators have us...

Al-Mu`ayyed Billah Alavi was from Hasani Sadat of Dilam who rebelled against the local governor of Roodsar; a governor that was dependent on Ale Booye and to those remained from Alavi Thaeri family. For illegitimacy of the rulers and the people`s discontent and some characteristic qualities of Al-Mu`ayyed Billah, he won and caused a development in political power from the east of Gilan, Roodsar...