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...

Abstract : Najmoddin Razi was the well-known mystics in the late 6th century and beginning of 7th century (AH). He has authored so many works in the field of Islamic mysticism. In his most significant work, Mersadolebad, he pointed out the beginning and end of the universe, the start of deportment and the extremity of development as well as the destination and goals of lover and beloved. In Raz...

There are several texts pertaining to Perisian painting which explain its aesthetics on the basis of mysticism and the notion of imaginal world. This point of view bears some methodological problems. Some of the prominent scholars (Corbin, Burckhardt, Nasr, Ringgenberg et al.) refering to Ibn ‘Arabi’s mystical notions, have tried to show that the specific aesthetics o...

there are several studies pertaining to perisian painting which explain its aesthetics on the basis of mysticism and the notion of imaginal world. this point of view bears some methodological problems. some of the prominent scholars (burckhardt, nasr, ringgenberg), refering to ibn arabi’s mystical notions, have tried to show that the specific aesthetics of persian painting has been derived from...

There are striking similarities and intriguing connections between the tradition of gamelan music in Java and Javanese mystical traditions. A game-lan is an ensemble of gongs, metalophones, drums, bowed lute, xylophone, zither, bamboo flute, and singers. Gamelans of many different types exist in Java, Bali, and Lombok, as well as in Malaysia. Some include only a few gongs; others have up to fif...

Ever since Marcel Duchamp introduced the readymade, mass-produced object has played a key role in modern and contemporary art. As commodity culture became increasingly dominant decades following second world war, artists turned to readymade context of two movements that continue be influential for art today: Pop Conceptual In work many artists, we have witnessed tendency—inspired by art’s engag...

there are different commentaries on rumi’s masnavi, each focusing on it from different pints of view such as literary aesthetics, mysticism, philosophy and subject matter. these various commentaries – including those by reynold nicholson, jafar shahidi, mohammad estelami and karim zamani – make their comparison and contrast inevitable. despite their great affinity, they are different from each ...

Mystical experiences represent a fundamental dimension of human existence. These experiences are commonly reported across all cultures. A mystical experience subjectively is characterized by encountering the divine in a way that disrupts the normal sense of self . The definitions of mystical experience used in research and clinical publications vary considerably, ranging from "upheaval of the t...