Advice to the youth on mysticism – Grand Ayatollah Sistani

Question: Respected Marjaʼ Ayatullāh al-Udhmā Sayyid Ali al-Sistani Dāma Dhilluh, As-Salāmu ʿalaykum wa Rahmatullāhi wa Barakātuh. From time to time we come across some characters amongst the youth in the institutes of higher religious learning (Hawzāt al-ʿilmiyya) and other places, who claim to be endowed with ʿIrfan and inner purity, and they…

Ibn-e-Arabi was a heretic – Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Ishaq Fayadh

Was Ibn Arabi a devotee of Ahlulbayt (PBUT)? – Grand Ayatullah Sayyid Sadiq Rouhani

The question of mystic revelation and spiritual schedules – Grand Ayatullah Safi Golpayegani

The question of spiritual guide – Grand Ayatollah Sistani

Translations from Greek into Syriac – Dr. Emiliano Fiori

As for the philosophical and scientific texts are concerned, we can observe three periods of the translation activity from Greek into Syriac: the first (second–fifth century) is characterized by the interest in popular philosophy of ethical content and gnomic form; in the second, (sixth century) the translations focus on the Aristotelian logic…

Ibn Arabi – life and core beliefs

Misconceptions of Medieval Muslim Philosophers about the Solar System

Allama Tafazzul Hussain Khan Kashmiri’s attempt to revive science in muslim societies

Allama Tafazzul Hussain Khan Kashmiri (1727 – 1801), also known as Khan-e-Allama, was a Twelver Shia scholar, scientist, and theologian of North India. He is famous for his Arabic translation of Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia. Early Life and Education Allama Tafazzul Husain Kashmiri was born to an influential Kashmiri family in Sialkot…

A critique of the hypothesis of knowledge by presence – Dr. Seyed Ali Taheri Khorram Abadi

Mulla Sadra and dehumanisation of women

Mulla Sadra on love for adolescent boys

Shiaphobia among the Sialvi sufis of Punjab – Prof. Tahir Kamran and Dr. Amir Khan Shahid

Ghufran Ma’ab’s opinions about Sufis – Prof. Sayyid Athar Abbas Rizvi

Introducing Sayyid Dildar Ali’s critique of mysticism, al-shihab al-thaqib (الشهاب الثاقب), Dr. Athar Abbas Rizvi writes: “Mawlānā Dildar Ali (1753 – 1820) toed the line of the Safawid Ulama  in fiercely opposing sufism. Like them he considered it was a threat to Shi’ism. He wrote a detailed work entitled the Shihab al-Saqib…

Material resurrection and return of the extinct – Grand Ayatollah Nasir Makarem Shirazi

Mulla Sadra’s philosophy is a dead horse

The seduction of philosophers and mystics – Grand Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi Golpayegani

The Greco-Muslim philosophy is neither compatible with Islam nor science – Grand Ayatollah Ishaq Fayadh

Modern Sufis and the State – Book Download

Download Link Introduction – Prof. Katherine Pratt Ewing When we, as a public living at this particular historical moment, ask, “What is Sufism? Is Sufism part of Islam? What is the relationship between Sufism and the modern state?” our concerns have been largely shaped by a pervasive, globalized media- and policy- driven…

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The debate between Mulla Tahir Qummi and Mulla Taqi Majlisi on sufism – Dr. Ata Anzali

The lightening strike: al-shihab al-thaqib by Sayyid Dildar Ali Nasirabadi – Dr. Sajjad Rizvi

Faith Based Violence and Deobandi Militancy in Pakistan – Book Download