Mysticism

Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi influenced Western societies with his teachings on mysticism and alternative approaches for human…

In order to discuss female Moroccan sainthood in Chapter Four, I first will explore some contexts. In this chapter, I will…

In order to have an integrated understanding of the S´aivite and Tantric influences on certain mystical currents in the Islamic…

This article examines the ideas of a prominent Southeast Asian thinker on Sufism in the Malay World. Haji Abdul Malik bin Abdul…

Farid al-Din Attar, author of the book here presented in an abridged translation, is to be accounted amongst the greatest poets…

Every culture develops within its own distinctive framework, in which discourses on identity are differently modulated and…

This paper sheds light on the treatment of the ‘problem of evil’ and human suffering from an Islamic perspective. I begin by…

To writ e abou t Sufism , o r Islami c mysticism, is an almost impossible task. At th e first step , a wide mountain rang e ap -…

Those who write about Islamic "mysticism" for all but specialized scholarly audiences are usually referring to a small selection…

Following on Professor Boaz Huss’s essay on “The New Age of Kabbalah: Kabbalah and its Contemporary Manifestations,” this essay…