A Study of Expressions Related to ‘Noah’ in Persian Mystical Literature—With Focus on the Torah and Noah Narratives in the Quran.

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-258
Author(s):  
Hong Inja
Keyword(s):  
Mystical Literature

The Christian character of Christian mystical experiences

1984 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-427
Author(s):  
Steven Payne
Keyword(s):  
Common Elements ◽  
Third Place ◽  
Cognitive Value ◽  
The Third ◽  
Affirmative Response ◽  
The Common ◽  
Mystical Experiences ◽  
Contemporary Writers ◽  
Mystical Literature

Are mystical states essentially ‘everywhere the same’? Though this question is notoriously obscure and difficult to answer, many contemporary writers on mysticism seem to favour an affirmative response to it, for a variety of reasons. First of all, some are impressed by the undeniable similarity in the testimony of mystics from widely divergent backgrounds and cultures; like most readers of mystical literature, they are deeply struck by the degree of apparent consensus between Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist contemplatives, for example. Secondly, there is a commendable desire in recent times to adopt a more positive and open-minded approach to other religions, and to acknowledge the value of their spiritual traditions; consequently, Christian authors today tend to focus on the common elements in Christian and non-Christian spiritualities, downplaying any differences. In the third place, those who wish to defend the cognitive value of mystical experiences on the basis of the ‘universal agreement’ of mystics will naturally maintain that there is a fundamental unanimity behind their different reports.

scholarly journals The educational-mystical role of intermediate centers (Ribat) along the Silk Road from China to Iran El rol educativo-místico de los centros intermedios (Ribats) a lo largo de la Ruta de la Seda de China a Irán

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (24) ◽  
pp. 167-175
Author(s):  
Maedeh Karimyan
Keyword(s):  
Silk Road ◽  
Religious Schools ◽  
Architectural Style ◽  
Architectural Form ◽  
Special Place ◽  
Historical Monuments ◽  
Mystical Literature ◽  
The Silk Road ◽  
Over Time

The silk road path to the northern part from China to Europe and from southern paths to lateral paths of Iran- Mesopotamia to Antioch and Mediterranean, had been the place of construction the historical monuments and works such as castles, towers, mills, graves, and intercity Ribats. Sufi Ribats as the mystical orientation and educational centers had a special place in the Silk Road, these intermediate buildings are buildings that functioned militarily in the first centuries of Islam (8th, 9th, and 10th centuries AD), and over time have been used to mean monasteries. The architectural style of the Ribats was similar to that of a military castle, and most of them consisted of a rectangular building with four watchtowers. Examining the Ribats of the Silk Road, it will become clear that the architectural form and plan of the Ribats are very similar to those of religious schools and Caravanserais. The Sufi historians and researchers have recorded many reports over these Ribats, have investigated the introduction, application, and position of Ribats in detail and have left fairly invaluable information to the futures. In this regard, the historical books and Sufi educational books and mystical literature are endowed with reports over intra-city and intercity Ribats built mainly on the way of main paths, particularly the main path of the Silk Road and its lateral ways. In this article, these Ribats have been described in detail as well as their role on the Silk Road.

ARTISTIC INTERPRETATION OF MAQAM OF FAQR AND IMAGE OF FAQIR IN THE WORKS OF ALISHER NAVOI

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-79
Author(s):  
Alisher Razzokov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Status ◽  
Artistic Interpretation ◽  
Mystical Literature

This article examines the artistic interpretations of the status and images of poverty in mystical teaching in the works of Alisher Navoi. The author of the article has first studied the definitions of the status of poverty in Islamic history, the latest mystical teachings, and other areas of thought and opinion. The history and definitions of the word «Faqr» were written by the first authors of mysticism, such as Abu Nasr Sarraj, Abu Talib Makki, Shahabuddin Suhrawardi and Ali ibn Usman Hujviri, as well as from the representatives of the Naqshbandi sect belongs to Alisher Navoi, Khoja Bahauddin Naqshband. In addition, special encyclopedic dictionaries of authors such as Sayyid Ja'far Sajjadi, Abdulboki Hiylaman, Aliakbar Dehhudo and Sulaymon Uludagh were used. Then attention is paid to the various interpretations of poverty in mystical literature. Alisher Navoi's own works were mostly used for comparative interpretations in fiction. Navoi's lyrical works were selected as the main object of analysis, and the ideas in the works of friends and prose before him were involved in a comparative analysis. Navoi's views on the reality of his work are surrounded by artistic interpretations of images such as the poor, the gado, the dervish, which they embody. At the end of the article summaries are made

‘Two Voices Heard in Castile’: Rachel and Mary Weep for Their Children in the Age of the Zohar

2017 ◽  
pp. 225-254
Author(s):  
Sharon Koren
Keyword(s):  
Christian Theology ◽  
Jewish Culture ◽  
Sacred Texts ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
Cosmic Scale ◽  
Christian Culture ◽  
Mystical Literature ◽  
Divine Mother

This chapter talks about Jewish culture in Castile from the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries and returns to two early mothers. It examines Rachel and Mary's lives and their respective transformations in Jewish mystical literature and Christian theology. The chapters examines the cultural transformations and metamorphosis of Rachel into a symbol of the Shekhinah as an attempt to cope with the particular cultural situation of exile within the dominant Christian culture of the time. It also explains how Rachel becomes the divine mother suffering for her children in exile. The chapter illustrates the theological transformation of Rachel that enabled Jews to respond to the Christian devotion to Mary on a cosmic scale in order to grapple with their exilic condition. It recounts stories of Rachel and Mary in the sacred texts of the Jewish and Christian faiths which have inspired devotees, religious scholars, and historians for thousands of years.

The Nature of God

1983 ◽  
pp. 56-69
Author(s):  
Byron L. Sherwin
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Tradition ◽  
Rational Analysis ◽  
Medieval Philosophy ◽  
Divine Attributes ◽  
Ultimate Truth ◽  
Mystical Tradition ◽  
The Face ◽  
Jewish Philosophy ◽  
Mystical Literature ◽  
Idea Of God

This chapter assesses Judah Loew's views on the nature of God. Rabbi Loew's position on this question derives from and is expressive of the idea of God as it had been developed in Jewish mystical literature until his time. What is of importance here is the question of Judah Loew's attitude toward the Jewish mystical and the Jewish philosophical traditions, as they relate to the predication of divine attributes. For Rabbi Loew, Jewish tradition is Jewish mystical tradition; that Jewish medieval philosophy, culminating for Loew in the writings of Eliezer Ashkenazi, is an unnecessary and inauthentic threat to what Loew perceived Judaism to be. He emerges as one who felt obliged to articulate the kabbalistic idea of God in the face of what he perceived as a vital threat to tradition from the philosophers. For Judah Loew, the attempt to submit religious truth to rational analysis is doomed to failure. Jewish tradition, specifically Jewish mystical tradition, is the gateway to supernal, ultimate truth. Jewish philosophy, at its best, can only hope to provide penultimate truth; at its worst, Jewish philosophy is a gateway to heresy.

To See Is To Assume: Whose Love Is Celebrated in the Song of Songs?1

1993 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athalya Brenner
Keyword(s):  
Song Of Songs ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Love Poetry ◽  
Single Female ◽  
Human Love ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Mystical Literature

AbstractThree characteristic features of the Song of Songs are its (a) disjointed or absent plot, (b) gynocentrism and (c) lack of theocentrism. Recognition of these features facilitates a reassessment of the book's allegorical readings, be they ancient or modern, Jewish or Christian, religious or ostensibly secular. The principal readings discussed are Rabin's reconsideration of the Song's intrinsic allegorical properties with reference to Tamil love poetry; M. Cohen's on the Song and Jewish mystical literature (the Shiur Qomah and Hekhalot Rabbati); Murphy's position of reading mutually reflected human love and divine love in the Song; Pope's identification of the Song's assumed, single female protagonist as a black goddess; and Fox's rejection of allegory because of his definitions of metaphor, metaphoric distance and meaning. In conclusion, some reflections on the (ancillary) development of the Jewish allegorical tradition and its links with the Song's cannonization are offered.

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