Pizhuhish nāmah-i intiqādī-i mutūn va barnāmah hā-yi ̒ulūm-i insāni (Critical Studies in Texts & Programs of Human Sciences)

A Critical Review of the Book The Nature of Mystical Knowledge

Document Type : Research

Authors

Zeynab Shariatnia 1
Hadi Vakili 2

1 PhD Student in Islamic Mysticism, Institute for Imam Khomeini and Islamic Revolution

2 Associate Professor of Comparative Mysticism, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies,Iran, Tehran

https://doi.org/10.30465/crtls.2020.5300
Abstract
This article seeks to critique and review the book “The Essence of Mystical Knowledge” by Massoud Ismaili. In this book, the writer has tried to examine the nature of mystical knowledge in two Islamic and western spaces taking a look at the comparative approach in a comprehensive system. If the criterion for our assessment is the degree to which the outer succeeds and does not succeed in expressing the issue, we can say that this book has worked well in the field of the philosophy of mysticism, and despite some of the formal and material shortcomings in it, the book seems to be acceptable.

Keywords

Mystical Knowledge
Mystical Experience
the Nature of Mystical Knowledge
the Nature of Mysticism

Subjects

اسماعیلی، مسعود (1396)، ماهیت معرفت عرفانی، تهران: پژوهشگاه فرهنگ و اندیشة اسلامی.
 
James, William )1985), The Varieties of Religious Experience, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Jerotić, Vladeta (1992), Mistična Stanja (Vizije i Bolesti),Dječije Novina.
Wainwright, W. J. (2007), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Underhill, Evelyn (1999), Mysticism: A Study in Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness, New York: Grand Rapids.
Underhill, Evelyn (1915), Practical Mysticis,New York: Dutton & Company.

  • Receive Date 02 November 2019
  • Revise Date 28 January 2020
  • Accept Date 10 March 2020

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