Joining Sufi orders and engaging in cult practices is not permissible – Supreme Leader Syed Ali Khamenei

بِسۡمِ اللّٰہِ الرَّحۡمٰنِ الرَّحِیۡمِ○ Translation: In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Question: What is the ruling on attending gatherings of mystics and Sufis, performing their specific practices and litanies, and visiting their khānqāhs (lodges)? Answer: Doing so is not permissible. How good it would be if those…

Advice to the youth on mysticism – Grand Ayatollah Sistani

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

Medieval Natural Philosophy in Latin Language – Dr. J. Thijssen

Before the publication of Newton’s Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis (1689), Aristotle’s Physics was the most widely read and influential book of natural philosophy (طبیعیات). After 1250, it constituted the core text of the discipline of natural philosophy and was, together with Aristotle’s other “natural books,” routinely studied at all European universities. Change…

Medieval Natural Philosophy in Arabic Language – Dr. Josep Montada

Translations from Greek into Syriac – Dr. Emiliano Fiori

Ibn Arabi – life and core beliefs

Misconceptions of Medieval Muslim Philosophers about the Solar System

Importance of critical thinking in Islam – Grand Ayatollah Nasir Makarem Shirazi

بِسۡمِ اللّٰہِ الرَّحۡمٰنِ الرَّحِیۡمِ○ Translation: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. In the Holy Quran, we read: «فَبَشِّرْ عِبَادِ○ الَّذِينَ یَسْتَمِعُونَ الْقَوْلَ فَیَتَّبِعُونَ أَحْسَنَهُ أُوْلَئِكَ الَّذِينَ هَدَاهُمُ اللَّهُ وَأُوْلَئِكَ هُمْ أُوْلُوا الْأَلْبَابِ○» (سورہ زمر، آیت ۱۸۔) Translation: So give good tidings to My servants, those who listen…

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

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

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