RELIGION / Mysticism

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This study was motivated by the limited scholarly attention devoted to linking the inner dimensions of classical Islamic mysticism, particularly qalb, lathifah ruhaniyyah, Sir, and Sirrul Sir, with contemporary psychology of religion and mental health. It aims to analyze these concepts in the thought of Imam al-Ghazali as elaborated by Shaykh Ihsan Jampes in Sirāj al-Ṭālibīn and to examine their relevance to psychos…

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religious experience where the soul reaches its highest degree of union with the sacred during earthly existence

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Mysticism encompasses religious traditions of human transformation aided by various practices and religious experiences. Popularly, mysticism is used synonymously with mystical experience, a neologism which refers to an ecstatic unitive experience of becoming one with God, the Absolute, or all that exists.

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"An excellent overview of the history of Jewish mysticism from its early beginnings to contemporary Hasidism...scholarly and complex." —Library Journal "An excellent work, clear and solidly documented by Joseph Dan on Gershom Scholem and on his work." —Notes Bibliographiques "An excellent guide to Scholem's work." —Christian Century

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