Abstract From the perspective of Shīʿa jurisprudence, the first encounters of the Iranian society with modernity were a terrain full of...

In his book, Zabān-i shiʿr dar nathr-i ṣūfīya: darāmadī bi sabkshināsīya nigāhi ʿirfānī  (The Language of Poetry in Sufi Prose: An...

“O, you who believer! Obey God and obey the Messenger and those in authority among you. And if you differ among yourselves concerning any...

Abstract The first encounter of Iranian Sufis with the teachings of Muḥy al-Dīn ibn ʿArabī’s (d. 638 H/1240) goes back to the seventh...

The ʿārif and ḥakīm of the third century, Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad ibn Ḥassan ibn Bishr ibn Hārūn Tirmidhī (d. 295 H/910), was the first...

Since its earliest exposure to Iranian Sufis in the second half of the seventh century, al-Shaykh al-Akbar’s key texts, including...

Muṣṭalaḥāt al-ʿIlm al-Kalām ʿInda al-Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsāʾī, by Aḥmad ʿAbdulhadī al-Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ, 1st Edition, 1430 H/2009 (Beirut,...

In my first post on Shaykhīsm, entitled In Pursuit of Originality (published June 30), I intentionally excluded Mangol Bayat's Mysticism...

Political theology is by far extent an exercise in revelation and its extensions in modern politics and law. As Carl Schmitt (1888-1985),...

There exists a considerable bulk of outstanding scholarly research and writings on Shaykhīsm in Western academia, although, like ‘a...