A controvertial and yet- to- be solved issue about Mathnavi is the reasons for discontinuation of Mathnavi of Rumi meetings at the close of Book I and the delayed start of Book II.different reasons could be found for this delay in Mathnavi and works of other poets contemporary with Mowlānā. However, none of there reasons by itself seems convincing enough. Therefore, researchers, both contempora...

This article starts with an introduction entitled “A glance at the types and levels of revelational language in the dialogue between God and man” .It offers a brief review about the background of the types and levels of revelational language in old theological and mystical texts in order to show the diversity and difference in this area. Then, it considers the essence of the religious or tradit...

Certainly, Gnosis and sufism- for its ethical values – is of the richest schools which play the most important role in communication of religion implicit message. The scope of the impacts and influence by mystical thoughts in Islamic community is to the extend that nobody can ignore it. As the words can not express mystics intuitional concepts ( abstract concepts) and as Rumi says" The words ...

Hypertexts, both interpretive and critical, are formed around the texts, and they play a significant role in the dissemination, consolidation or distortion of the organized knowledge order. Therefore, even those hypertexts formed out of sympathy or empathy cannot be overlooked. A Little Rude, Much Courteous in Mathnavi, as a hypertext has described and interpreted a number of subjects in Mathna...

From its very beginnings, man has always been a curious and inquisitive creature looking for goals to reach him, but what a destination is, where it is, and who it is has been an important issue that makes people more curious and purposeful. He believes that the structure of human beliefs is shaped by his moral characteristics and that the moral contaminants of human knowledge are distorted. Th...

When studying mystical texts, the reader finds out that along with mystic's loving relationship with God, which is characterized by resort, absorption, submission and, finally, destruction, there is another relationship, which appears to be irrespective of the holy and unholy sanctum. Coexistence of these two opposites confuses readers of mystical texts. Investigating the quotes and actions of ...

Loneliness is a matter with which man has been faced all the time. In different fields such as Sufism, mysticism, psychology, philosophy and so on, a particular concept of the word is meant. Literature as the appearance arena of human thoughts and emotions has manifested these concepts and meanings in different ways. In the mystical Persian poetry, as the most prolific branch of Persian lit...

The Holly Qurān, according to mystics’ conviction is not only the most important source of gaining knowledge in the Islamic mysticism field but also an authentic criteria for separation between truth from illusion. Infered from mystical texts, there are two groups of wayfarers of the Path who, because of their false understanding of Qurānic meaning and learnings, have fallen into prey of va...