Professor of Philosophy and Mysticism, Author, Lecturer
Some Features of Shi’I Irfan (Mysticism) (شاخصه های عرفان ناب شیعی), Qom, Bustan-e Ketab, 2012 This work is based on a series of lectures delivered at the High Council of Islamic Philosophy (Majma‘-e ‘Ali-ye Hikmat-e Islami) in Qom, and was later edited and published by Bustan-e-Ketab in 2012. The book outlines the key features […]
A new book from Mohammad Fanaei Eshkevari has been recently published, titled Spiritual Tradition, An introduction to Islamic Mysticism and its history. This book has been published by MIU Press, located at 133, High Road, Willesden, London NW10 25W. Considering current tendencies towards various mystical schools in the world on the one part, limitedness of […]
Is it possible for us to know God immediately or directly? Our ordinary knowledge of God is knowledge by representation/correspondence (al ‘ilm al husuli). We have a concept of God; we don’t feel the real God. We know God through some concepts. These concepts provide us with abstract knowledge, mental knowledge. This is not immediate […]