This study intends to explain the process of education, based on the educational foundations of Islamic mysticism. Indeed, this investigation tries to answer the question "what is the process of education based on Islamic mysticism?" In this study the analytic - deductive method is used to respond to the above question. At first, the ontological, epistemological and humanistic foundations of I...

Sun is one of the figures that is used in mystical poems especially as a symbol of God or unity. This research is going to study symbolic aspects of sun in Rumi's Mathnawi-Ma΄nawi and its denotations in related with myths an archetypes to find the relationship between these two fields of application. Archetypes that are manifested in the form of symbol in poet's collective unconsciousness show ...

Gnosis (Mysticism) is a philosophy and meditation school leading the way farer through the reality and truth recognition on the basis of gnostics’ intectual intuition to attain his aim. Gnostics adjusted Qorānic concepts and prophetic sayings to the man’s inner state and inner world, and ultimately offered a perfect thought. This unique characteristic is clearly revealed in Mowlānā and ibn Fār...

One of the most important aspects of an artistic expression in a work of art is the hidden form of its infrastructure. This item is especially noteworthy in Iranian painting. Symbolic and artistic expression in the works of the Safavid period are manifested in a well-organized manner in many paintings. Among the paintings depicted in the school of Tabriz II, the painting of Worldly and Otherwor...

This article is an analytic and comparative study into abstract patterns of geometric designs, as one of the most significant spaces in the Islamic architecture, and the principle of perceptual creation. It has a comparative approach to investigate equivalence, effigy, and analogies between the micro and macro systems (in the hierarchical system of the universe). In the mystical cosmology of Ib...