todd lawson in article hermeneutic interpretation of pre-islamic and shiite، attempts to describe and assess the historical development of hermeneutics the twelver shia interpretation. this article is based on the shia interpretation of the phenomena of contemporary hermeneutics four province-based، compromise، mystical and esoteric (deafness hermeneutic) and philosophical - has lived provinces...

the expressions of “esoteric” and “esotericism” have a wide range of meanings, however, they specifically apply to religious, mystical, and philosophical secret schools. in ancient greek world, i.e. before the hellenistic era, we come across some currents with esoteric tendencies. the various texts from this period show that the ancient greeks sought the source of the esoteric currents outside ...

This paper presents, for the first time, a comprehensive scholarly examination of the history and principles of major traditions of esoteric healing. After a brief conceptual overview of esoteric religion and healing, summaries are provided of eight major esoteric traditions, including descriptions of beliefs and practices related to health, healing, and medicine. These include what are termed ...

In the Islamic tradition, Mulla Sadra is foremost among the philosophers who have dealt with the issue of prophecy from all three theological, philosophical, and mystical perspectives. Among Western scholars of religion, Henry Corbin is the most prominent commentator of prophetic wisdom, who has provided a mystical reading of the problem of prophecy drawing on the ideas of Muslim philosophers. ...

since molla sadra’s era, various exegeses have been made of the principality of existence (isalat al-wujoud) and non-principality of quiddity which can be placed in three distinct groups: 1) common-sense exegeses, 2) philosophical exegeses, and 3) mystical exegeses. common-sense exegesis is the one derived from a common sense viewpoint of the universe, which presupposes the quiddities external....

Introduction If we were to acknowledge the interpretive character of our public debates over some of the issues that concern us, we would secure a firm foundation for a deliberative form of democracy. For we would then talk and listen to one another with mutual respect, not simply because political theorists encourage us to do so, but because we recognize the interpretive status of our own posi...

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 ...

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 ...

regarding sadr-ol-mote'allehin philosophical method, various opinions have been proposed from sadra researchers, each of which monitors a part of sadra’s philosophical method or it has paved a way which is different from sadra’s method and transcendent theosophy orators expositions and it is sometimes converse. his four methodological principles, i.e. purposeful combination of three mystic...