‘abd al-wahhāb b. aḥmad sha‘rānī (898-973/1492-1565) is to be considered as one of the most important advocates of muḥyī al-dīn ibn ‘arabī (560-638/1164-1240). he has written significant books in defense of and under the inspiration of ibn ‘arabī, the most important of which that can be mentioned are al-yawāqīt wa al-jawāhir, al-kibrīt al-aḥmar, and al-qawā‘id al-kashfiyya. it is worth mentioni...

literature has always been the stage of representing sublime concepts of humanity and illustrates most latent scenes of human life. war and resistance have been apparently represented in literature as two most important expressions of human life. writers and poets  have always created beautiful works in this context such as those written  after crusades and events  of fateful conflicts between ...

ibn al-moqaffa, an iranian thinker and reformer lived in the era when people suffered from tyranny. he had well realized the root of people's problem which he attributed to the political regime. he was the one who believed that the progress of common men depends on the progress of nobles and their progress is not possible without their leader's progress. the society in those days was ...

this study has been derived from my doctorate thesis entitled as ‘’al derasate val tahghigh hula area alsarfie val nahvie leibn geni fi ketabeh al khasaes’’ which while expressing a little about life and literature of ibne geni, explain the subject of accent variations in terms of meaning and structure. it is believed that ibn geni in 321 (h-gh) was born in mousel. some believe that his name ha...

among the sources on tasawwuf, the works of ibn al-‘arabi especially hold femininity in high regard. the present study is to illustrate that beyond the transcendental view of ibn al-‘arabi to woman, there are some prominent traces of binary oppositions that, according to hélèn cixous, culminate in different reactions to feminine and masculine roles and ultimately lead to the appearance of patri...

this article tries to compare two contiguous concepts inzoroaster’s gāthas, “spэništa mainyu”- “spэnta mainyu”, withtwo others in ibn arabi’s mystical system, “al-fayḍ al-aqdas”-“al-fayḍ al-muqaddas”. by this comparison, we are in quest ofarraying an explanation of two basic concepts of the gāthaswithin the theories of a major figure of islamic mysticism ratherthan corresponding these two to th...