The rise of mysticism from which many meanings, mystical experiences and teachings had entered the field of language led to the formation of a specific language called mystical language. It is divided into two kinds: expression and gesture. During his journey to truth, a mystic achieves ideas, facts and experiences that could not possibly be expressed other than in simple words and this is...

 Myth describes the events of the early days of human life, a particular way of interpreting and perceiving the creation of the world and man, and answers many of our questions about existence. What effort has man always made to know himself and the world in which he lives. Thus, one of the most fundamental human explorations from the beginning is to reach the secret and unsolved mysteries of c...

The first book among early mystical fexts to discuss mystical sects is Hojviri's kashf Al-Mahjub. This work was created in the fifth century (A.H). Hojviri (b. Circa 470) classifies sufis into twelve sects in one part of his work and explains their basic belliefs. The question raised by some readers of this text is whether these sect existed at all at that time. The present paper attempts to ex...

Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Muhammad (Ahmad) Daylami (391 AH.) is the writer of the first and oldest book in Islamic-Iranian Sufism about Divine love. There seems to be inadequate data about biography of this uncelebrated and theorist Sufi. Through studying his work (‘Atf al- Alf…) and some of his teachers whom he wrote about (e.g. Muhammad ibn Khafif known as Sheykh-i Kabir), it can be deduced that h...

Abstract Lexicons and encyclopedias are considered as important and essential sources in different fields of science due to their impact on speeding up the processes of research and studies. In the field of mysticism and mystical studies, considering the widespread and multiplicity of research in the present era, it is necessary to develop a lexicon or an encyclopedia to represent the texts an...