In some Sufi hagiographies a dialogue between a Sufi man and a mystic woman is narrated, in most of which the woman is nameless and called so as well- Majhoolah al-Asmā‘a-. According to certain narratives, while the Sufi man is in the state of meditation or ecstacy, the woman appears into an imaginary figure and solves his spiritual problems and guides him upon the Path. There are some simila...

Amir Khosrow Dehlawi has composed a roughly famous verse which is closely examined in the present study: “Ze daryāye shahādat choon nahange lā bar ārad sar/tayammom farz gardad nooh rā dar rooze toofānash”.In this poem, Amir Khosrow has intended to convey “Lā of Shahādah” which is previously employed by Sanai and other poets in an attempt to create novel senses. Undoubtedly, Amir Khosrow ...

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Although the acquisition knowledge has preparing and introductory relation with regard to practice and is considered as its required condition, it lacks enough capability for definite guarantee of practice. Explicating the function of the acquisition knowledge achieved from different faculties of the soul and analyzing its position in principles and process of practice can to some extent explai...

The newfound term “Wilāyat Takwīnī (Ontological Guardianship) has its origin in opinions of early Sufis. This paper has written by descriptive analytical method, Based on mystic’s works that has shown that Hakim Termezi (295or 300 A.H.) was the first Sufi who brought up the issue of “Wilāyat Takwīnī” without any philosophical ideas. The Sufis since him, such as: Tousi (378 A.H.), Kilābādhī...

Intertextuality is the overt or covert appearance of a contemporary or earlier text in another, and texts with similar themes can more often impact each other intertextually. From this perspective, the intertextual impact of ‘Attār’s Asrār Nāmeh, as the background text, on Shabestari's Golshan Rāz, as the foreground text, was studied. It is argued that this intertextual impact ...