abstract u.s. attack to afghanistan after 9/11 provided opportunities for us who tried to become the dominant power after collapse of ussr and bipolar world. thinkers like fukuyama believed american liberal democrats thought would be universally accepted without resistances. liberal democracy is the best and final model of governance; in this regard, united state has moral responsibilities for...

One of the topics, raised in Islamic Sufism and Mysticism and specially attended by Sufis, is presumed to be classifying kerāmāts (miraculous power of saints) and considering names and types of supernatural actions. Sufis are said to have various views about these actions, their types and their titles. Kerāmāts were originally sorted in three or four general kinds. But because of the developmen...

Gnosticism and Sufism, investigation of activities of these two schools through times andalso reviewing their different parts have been paid attention by western and eastern researchers across Islamic countries. Islamic Sufism is one major issue in Gnosticism which lasts for twelve centuries since its foundation. This subject has been paid essential attention regarding that an important part of...

From Persian Tadhkirah To Magical Realism: A Discourse in The Review of Mystical Realism Mehrnaz Shirazi Adel /Ph.D. student of Persian Literature at the Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies/ [email protected] Abstract Mystical Realism; A Comparison of Suffi Tadhkirah writing and Magical Realism with Emphasis on Marquez's Works by Mohammad Roodgar is in effect his doctoral thesi...

short story as an important literary genre in the recent decade is focused by many of young writers and literary critical with searching structure, content , artistic techniques and cognitive phenomenon of these works , we can show quantity of using some parts of storied literature from new literal techniques of the word and also we can show the usage of native, cultural and social foundation...

Alchemy is an ancient science that has been associated with various sciences, religions and mysticism. In Islam, many mystical prayers and practices have originated from the transcendental sciences, and mysticism has had a great impact on the spread of alchemy among Muslims. The nature of alchemy is in harmony with Islamic mysticism; because they branch out from sacred sources. If the spiritual...

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...

Probably the stream called Asceticism (later named Sufism and Mysticism) can be regarded as the most everlasting and permanent course which paved its way at some Muslems’ ideology with a few changes since the advent of Islam. It seems that asceticism, after Fiqh and Quranic works, has been written about more than any other areas. The style and the formal structure of mystical writings have cons...