this article tries to compare two contiguous concepts inzoroaster’s gāthas, “spэništa mainyu”- “spэnta mainyu”, withtwo others in ibn arabi’s mystical system, “al-fayḍ al-aqdas”-“al-fayḍ al-muqaddas”. by this comparison, we are in quest ofarraying an explanation of two basic concepts of the gāthaswithin the theories of a major figure of islamic mysticism ratherthan corresponding these two to th...

Zurvanism was an ancient variant of Zoroastrianism. According to Zurvanism, the great powers good and evil, Ahura Mazda Angra Mainyu, were sons a greater god Zurvan, associated with time. Eudemus Rhodes, some Persian thinkers, presumably Zurvanists, took there be three principles underlying world: light, darkness, greatest all time (or perhaps, according Eudemus, space). This paper explores wha...