Molla Sadra has viewed revelation, vahy, to be the connection and unity of the Prophet’s spirit with intellectual and fantastic world. To establish such a state, one should cut off any attention from low desires and let wisdom govern over his worldly tendencies. In such a state intellectual and fantastic faculties find appropriate opportunity to attain their own perfections, namely to observ...

Imamate and guardianship is considered as of Shiite`s most fundamental beliefs always defended by reasonable proofs of them. Molla Sadra is regarded among those great scholars; using his philosophical principles, he has tried to show how Divine friend or perfect man may be alive in visible world for ever. He has explained the unity of perfect man and the world of intellect. For him, intellectua...

The issue of women’s nushooz (violation of marital duties) is one of the issues raised in verse 34 of chapter Nisa. This paper emphasizes this verse by explaining the interpretations of lady Amin Esfahani and Ayatollah Javadi Amoli about the semantics and ordinance of "nushooz", and aims to compare the views of the two commentators of two opposite genders in the meaning and ordinance of nushooz...

Based on Mowlavi’s (Rumi) Mathnavi, death is not a sudden event that terminates man’s life. It is an event that continues throughout a lifetime. People experience it many times and in different forms before they actually die. This claims is rooted in Mowlavi’s beliefs that there are stages and types for death. Based on Mowlavi’s Mathnavi, sleep, evolution, changes in "Continual Creation", and d...

Shariati's intellectual flow is accepted by various readings such as traditionalism, postmodern readings, modernism and radical approach because his thought has the capacity to accept all these readings. He was a critique of tradition and at the same time criticized modernity, and therefore he may have considered as a traditionalist or a supporter of modernity. But deeper study of Shariati's wo...

The issue of the source of ethical value is one of the most important issues in the field of metaethics. Moral philosophers have come up with different perspectives on this issue. Some Islamic thinkers, including Muhaqqiqi Isfahani, have considered the rationals` tradition as the formulating cause for moral propositions. This research is intended to emphasize on the viewpoint of Muhaqqiqi Isfah...

William Chittick, currently Professor of Religious Studies at the State University of New York (Stony Brook), is an internationally renowned expert on Islamic thought. His contributions to the fields of Sufism and Islamic philosophy have helped paint a clearer picture of the intellectual and spiritual landscape of Islamic civilization from the 7th/13th century onwards. Yet Chittick is not simpl...