SOME justification is necessary for adding to the list of suspected opium-takers of the past. The academic game of seizing on certain similarities between the thought of a selected victim and the features supposed to be characteristic of opium dreams long ago became something of a bad habit. In the case of Plotinus (205-270 A.D.), however, grounds for the belief can be found outside his own wri...

Al-Qur’an menjelaskan bagaimana wujud dari segala ciptaan (makhluk) Allah, diantaranya manusia, malaikat, jin, syetan, iblis, dan lain sebagainya. Makhluk yang kasat (ghaib) masih menjadi bahasan menarik karena terjadi perbedaan pendapat daripada filsafat tasawuf. Oleh itu, penelitian ini akan membahas tafsir corak penafsiran, khususnya pada Tafsir Mafatihul Ghaib karya Ar-Razi Ibn ‘Arabi Ibnu ...

There are several texts pertaining to Perisian painting which explain its aesthetics on the basis of mysticism and the notion of imaginal world. This point of view bears some methodological problems. Some of the prominent scholars (Corbin, Burckhardt, Nasr, Ringgenberg et al.) refering to Ibn ‘Arabi’s mystical notions, have tried to show that the specific aesthetics o...