Psychotic and religious experiences have been associated since the earliest recorded history, and undoubtedly before. The Old Testament uses the same term, in reference to madness sent by God as a punishment for the disobedient, and to describe the behavior of prophets (Rosen, 1968). Socrates declared, "Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by div...

prophets’ hadiths are such hadiths narrated in islamic traditional books which narrate some words of divine prophets or ancient celestial books. those hadiths are scattered on the one hand and on a variety of subjects on the other. gathering and classification of those hadiths bear fruitful results. there are 1053 hadiths narrated from 34 prophets in traditional books of them 60% deal with fund...

the prophet’s political activities in medina indicate a particular kind of power exercise in the public domain. on the other hand, after receiving shari’a, he promulgated it and enforced the related verdicts and teachings among people. realization of these two facts in his behavior turns the relationship between power exercise by him and islamic shari’a into a basic question. the relationship b...

Story poetry as a branch of the big tree and literature in Abbasid era, is one important tools for discovering historical facts. This study showed that ‘Alī ibn al-Jahm can be considered pioneers this literary art era. He paved way poets to depict history format create novel works era immortalize those events. By analyzing each element story al-Jahm’s chapter “Creation Adam”, has proved work po...

in this article instances of the cooperation of faqihs with despotic rulers within the framework of welayat are presented. the writer believes the cooperation of these faqihs can be accounted for resorting to their fiqh-based belief. a close attention to the writings and speeches of these ulama will clarify that the main reason why these ulama cooperated with despotic rulers and accepted their ...

afzalodin badil khaghani shervani and nezami ganjavi are two major stylist poets who had profound influences on later poets. most of the khaghani’s poems are lucid and uncomplicated; but many ordinary people, and sometimes some of educated ones find it hard to understand some of his ballades because of different linguistic combinations and scientific terms he used in them. although, what makes ...