in islamic sufism and mysticism, especially the sufi order kubrawiyya, descripting the waystation of traversing and aspect of heart and vision of privacy by lights and colors and the sufi master role in this regard has special significance. 'ala- al dawla semnani(659-736) and sayyid muhammad nūrbakhsh (795-869), two renowned mystics of this order, in their works have addressed this issue. ...

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...

This article offers an anthropological look at sacred textuality by exploring the social and theological structure of Jewish religious nationalism in Israel West Bank. It argues that study texts serves as a medium through which Zionists articulate what it means to return ancestral homeland. demonstrates how these is implicated cultivation two different structural modes relate ideas homecoming. ...

It is of great importance for us to unearth and examine such Turkic texts, which are important both in terms history geography world shed light on a large part it. Finding examining historical texts written Central Asia one the steps be taken, especially medical studies. One these values reflection Yesevilik Sufism, reflects culture, Islamic understanding philosophy Turkiс tribes’ life, prayers...

There are several texts pertaining to Perisian painting which explain its aesthetics on the basis of mysticism and the notion of imaginal world. This point of view bears some methodological problems. Some of the prominent scholars (Corbin, Burckhardt, Nasr, Ringgenberg et al.) refering to Ibn ‘Arabi’s mystical notions, have tried to show that the specific aesthetics o...

the study of source of mathnavi goes back to the age of composing “maakhez e qesasvatamsilatemathnavi”. undoubtedly, the present study will remove most of ambiguities in the field. however, the results of the studies have been unremarkable so farindicating we cannot think just about one source. mathnavi is originated of moulana’s interactions with lots of sources and religious, historical, inte...