For Naranjo, awareness is "the ultimate treasure"; it lies at the very foundation of the transpersonal and flows through all Buddhist and Sufi philosophy and practice. In exploring the meaning of awareness in each of these practices, the author recognizes the temptation "to value the manifestation above the awareness”. But he sees a shift in understanding toward the true nature of awareness and...

Although Sufi-led political parties have been active in Bangladesh for almost four decades, they received little scholarly attention. Therefore, this article discusses the historical context within which post-independence Sufi/Pir-centred emerged, their interaction with other parties, and electoral performance. It also touches upon some basic issues relating to Pir-cum leaders: once a Pir becom...

This paper examines the strategies that Sufis adopted during covid-19 crisis which are journey and seclusion: two characterize Sufi’s behaviour. Using qualitative research, this argues though policies enacted in time of has led humanity into herd immunity bodies have been subjected to a set improvised political decisions, Sufi immune by nature, as they characterized an inner makes them either s...

Reliable estimates of runoff are required as a part of the information sets that help watershed managers make informed decisions on water resources planning and management. This study was carried out in Shafaroud watershed located in the north of Iran. In order to achieve the best runoff simulation in the study area, first rainfall data of four stations during 1998 to 2011 were collected and co...

Eight spring wheat cultivars were evaluated under three heat stress conditions (early, late and very late) in order to identify suitable cultivars to develop heattolerant genotypes resistant to future global warming. Results from the study indicate that stress did not negatively affect flag leaf area in ‘Prodip’ and ‘Sufi’, flag leaf dry matter partitioning in ‘Prodip’, ‘BARI Gom-26’ and ‘S...