nahj al-blaghe is the most valuable and influent book for muslims after the holy quran. this book is effective and meaningful for anyone as a muslim. this moral treasure has also had great effects on literary men. the present article investigatesbustan by saadi and studies and presents the images which saadi has extracted from nahj al-blaghe, ghorar al-hekamand doarar al-hekam. comprehending th...

this paper will compare two of the most prominent mystics of islam and hinduism on what may be called the “end of the mystical journey,” or mokśa in hindu spirituality and fanā in islamic mysticism. the interpretations of these two mystics are naturally developed according to their own epistemological and ontological bases. thus, referring to their most significant principles of thought, the au...

This paper proposes to study mystical experience by contrasting it with “ordinary” experience, i.e., standard consciousness. It emphasises the construed nature of consciousness and role that mutual connectedness mental contents plays in its construction. then shows removal factors are responsible for “making” accounts principal features experience; these are, therefore, mainly negative. Underst...

a portrait of the artist as a young man portrays stages of spiritual developments of a young artist. based on some mystical backgrounds, particularly aquinas’s mystical aesthetics, and referring to theosophists like bruno and saint augustine, joyce comes to a kind of mystical aesthetics of art. he, accordingly, depicts a young artist whose aesthetic attitude is mystical, encounters epiphany, an...