Sa‘di is one of the greatest Iranian literary personalities throughout the history of Persian belles- letters and poetry, that so many books and articles have been written on different aspects of his personality. But the subject matter of the present paper is something about which has been paid attention less, that is Sa‘di’s spiritual and mystical personality reflected in his works particula...

Ethics and mysticism are two transcendental desires of human. Therefore, deliberation on the proportion of mysticism and ethics is important for scholars of the both fields. Some scholars, however, have considered mysticism as incompatible with ethics and some others as something beyond it. Mystics` hermit and their state of being in full meditation and introspection have caused some scholars t...

Monastic commands of St. Benedict (480- 547 BC.) to his monk disciples and mystic commands of Khājeh ‘Abd Allah Ansāri (481-396 A.H.) with an emphasis on “The Rule of St. Benedict” and “Manāzil al-Sāyerin” is compared in this article. This comparison has done in a descriptive –analytic way, in order to reveal convergence between these two figures. Considering that impressive place of these two...