Love is of a fundamental importance in Mowlawi`s ethical view: taking love as ascension can be known to be of a temporal identity or a product of the time-based thought restricted between past, present and future. Human soul`s life is considered in Mowlavi`s thought as fruit of the seeds of the purpose with regard to the past and future time. His large ethical model, therefore, in opposing ethi...

Love, this eminent humane experience, has been explored not only by writers and poets, but also by philosophers, psychologists and even experimental scientists. This paper aims to discuss a novel aspect in phenomenology of love, as the concept of destructive and constructive nature of love, which is to the best of our knowledge, presented for the first time. The fundamental idea of this paper w...

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...