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...

At the early period of mysticism, Sufis gradually, under guidence of the outstanding masters, set up Khanqah as their largest and the most societal institution. After stability of Sufism, Khanqah in Islamic-Iranian mysticism turned into a center both of gathering of scholars, Sufis and of training their disciples. Khanqāh played a key role in the education, training, and development of the foll...

Unity of existence is one of the basic concepts in Islamic mysticism. Other concepts in Islamic mysticism appear to be less important than this theory, so that those concepts are assumed to be aimed at progress of the notion of unity of existence. The current article sought to categorize Ammān Sāmāni’s views about unity of existence. Each division of this category is compared with views of such...

One of the most important issues in anthropology is a moral issue that led to the development of the human personality and to provide excellence. Study on ethics, long of interest to researchers in various fields, especially in philosophy and mysticism. One of the areas of ethics applied ethics which deals with the analysis of the categories of excellence in human performance. Virtue ethics in ...