abstract: mystic literature (irfān) in general and sufi literature in particular has always been alluring to the scholars interestingly working in different fields from literary, religious, philosophical, historical to other fields which may have little in common. among sufi theologians, farid ud-din attar neishabouri is the one whom no one has ever been able to surpass in creating works which ...

Peter Ackroyd has suggested (l 968) that knowing too much background may prevent us from reading some texts as they were meant to be read. Certainly it is hard to read 2 Kings 16 without "static" from what we know from other sources. For example, because we enjoy a reasonably full knowledge of the Syro-Ephraimite War, we may assume connections in this text that are simply not present. Again, we...

in recent years،using religious characters and issues left obvious impression among poems of muslim poets.contemporary persian and arabic poets tried to use religious characters in their poems. this researchis analyzed existent religious characters in poems of contemporary persian and arabic poets means nazik al-malaika and taherehsaffarzadehwith descriptive–analyticmethod.in this study among i...

The aims of the research I embarked on were: (a) to show the preference of terminal values in personal and in social character as well as the level of religious experience: God's presence and God's absence among singles and married couples; and (b) to show the relation between terminal values in personal and in social character and religious experience: God's presence and God's absence in two g...

This chapter gives an account of the earliest Indian contacts with Indonesia according to first millennium AD inscriptions from East Kalimantan and Java. It discusses the changes which occurred in social, religious and political organization, particularly in Java, as a result. The dissemination of literary into Indonesia is examined in detail and a comparison is made of the rather limited liter...