Abstract The present paper aims to provide textual evidence in support of Rumi’s spiritual shiism.
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Rumi’s Spiritual Shiism
By: Seyed G SafaviLondon Academy of Iranian Studies, UKAbstractThe present paper aims to provide textual evidence in support of Rumi’s spiritual shiism. The evidence will be taken from Rumi’s Mathnawi. Shiism, in its true form, believes in the welayat (authority) of Imam Ali and his eleven descendents following the demise of Prophet Muhammad.
The Imam and the Qutb: The Axis Mundi in Shiism and Sufism
Zachary MarkwithThe earth shall never be empty of the witness of God (ĕujjat AllΪh).2In Christianity, Christ is envisaged as the Axis Mundi, or the cosmological andspiritual center around which the world rotates.
Shi‘ism, Sufism and Gnosticism
Shi‘ism, Sufism and Gnosticism1Dr. Hajj Nour Ali Tabandeh“My Lord! Expand my breast for me, and make easy for me my work, and loosen theknot of my tongue that they may understand my speech.”2Concerning Shi‘ism and Sufism—two words denoting the same realitycontemporary scholars, especially Westerners, have made many mistakes.