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What makes you wait, bitterly, might not exist at all!
That is the risk of believing in something.
That "something" could be anything.
#doubt #disbelief #mysticism #existentialism
That is the risk of believing in something.
That "something" could be anything.
#doubt #disbelief #mysticism #existentialism
Enter into a void as described by #Kierkegaard.
This void needs to be filled in.
This is what humans waste their time on, mostly.
Filling the #void to overcome the crisis of existence.
This void needs to be filled in.
This is what humans waste their time on, mostly.
Filling the #void to overcome the crisis of existence.
Psychologically broken people may be looking for others to combine and complete themselves.
Ressourcement: A Movement for Renewal in Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology - Edited by Gabriel Flynn and Paul D. Murray 
(p. 522) The ultimate end game of the 18th century Russian Orthodox church's 'Ressourcement', adopted by the Novus Ordo & which provided the framework for Vatican II, is recognizing the N. O. church's subservient relationship with the synagogue as typified by the Noahide Laws.
Vladimir Soloviev created the Russian theological concept of 'Sophiology' and Florensky and Bulgakov spread it. Russian Orthodox goal was to spread its beliefs, concepts, and mysticism into world dominance. escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses…
#RussianOrthodox #ThirdRome #Shekinah #Mysticism
#RussianOrthodox #ThirdRome #Shekinah #Mysticism
'sobornost' was the beginnings of the Russian ecumenical movement in the ROC.
St. Sergius Theological Institute in Paris partnered with the YMCA for financing. Additional money came via John D. Rockefeller which was used to spread Russian charities for support of academy worldwide. (pp. 225-238)
#RussianOrthodox #Rockefeller #YMCA
#RussianOrthodox #Rockefeller #YMCA
The seminarian philosopher and polymath Āqā-ye Ḥasan Ḥasanzāde Āmolī (b. 1307Sh/1928) passed away yesterday 25 September 2021 - a 🧵 on his life and works #ShiiPhilosophy #mysticism #ʿerfān #ḥekmat
As his name suggests, he was born in Āmol and began his seminary studies there and only moved to Tehran as a young man in 1950 to continue his studies 2/
In Tehran, he studied philosophy and mysticism with a major teacher at the Madrasa-ye Marvī, Shaykh Muḥammad Taqī Āmolī (1887-1971) best known for his work on #Avicennism and his glosses on Sharḥ al-manẓūme of Hādī Sabzavārī (d. 1873) 3/
In the late 90s as a grad student I became interested in the utility of #analytic_philosophy as a language and method of presentation and looked to how other traditions used it - a thread on #Indian_philosophy 1/
I began reading the work of Bimal Krishna Matilal (1935-1991), who had studied traditional logic and mastered it as a Tarkatirtha at Sanskrit College in Calcutta by the early 1960s 2/
Another major figure in modern Indian philosophy JN Mohanty has this highly useful reminiscence of that time and Matilal’s approach sjsu.edu/people/anand.v… 2a/
@FutureStudies_ Apologies: posted my comment at the #top of the thread (on its 72nd floor) rather than here at the #bottom, beneath the present example. Here it is: ThreadReaderApp.com/thread/1403383… #Babel_on! :-)
@FutureStudies_ Now—following after the #comment—a #question: do you really think that these corporate yoga/meditation/mindfulness classes are a form (or forms) of #mysticism, that-is-to-say #mystical_practice? I suspect that they are #not (indeed #far_from_it).
@FutureStudies_ And #a_follow_̶up_question, if I may (in June): what is a ‘#part_̶time_mystic’?—or indeed a #full_̶time_mystic, for that matter/mindfulness. Are there part-time and full-time employment-opportunities for mystics?—and again, are these mystics actual (or even virtual) #μύστης?
#manuscripts Ms Majlis-e Shura-ye Islamic 1783 is a collection that includes the famous commentary on Fusus al-Hikam of #IbnArabi by Da’ud al-Qaysari (d. 1350) as well as various epistles #Sufism 1/
Those rasa’il are mainly by the famous #Nimatullahi #Sufi Muhammad Ja’far Kabudarahangi Majdhub ‘Ali Shah (d. 1823) who was a prominent scholar - I’ve mentioned him in threads on #Sufism in #ShiiIran before 2/
His interests ranged across #philosophy #mysticism, and #literature and he also wrote refutations of #ChristianPolemics 3/
All those particularly the Liberal Secular Elite Class of Pakistan , specifically the likes of #SufiSal who use “Sufi” as Suffix or Prefix! Read what Sufi means 👇
#Sufis #Sufism #Mystics #Mysticism
#Sufis #Sufism #Mystics #Mysticism
پاکستان کی لبرل ، سیکولر اشرافیہ جنہوں نے #تصوف و #سلوک کو فیشن سمجھ کر ماتھے پر سجا رکھا ہے بالخصوص “صوفی سال #SufiSal “ قماش کے نفس و ہوا پرست ۔ وہ پڑھیں کہ #تصوف و #سلوک صرف “فنا” ہے یا “مخلوق” کی خدمت ۔ پڑھیں صوفی کون ہے 👇
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مؤلف
پروفیسر یوسف سلیم چشتی
مطبوعہ (لاہور - ۱۹۷۶)
#Sufis #Mystics #Sufism #Mysticism #تصوف #سلوک
تمام خواتین و حضرات محفوظ کریں اور مطالعہ فرمائیں ، بہت ہی نایاب اور اعلی تصنیف ہے
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مؤلف
پروفیسر یوسف سلیم چشتی
مطبوعہ (لاہور - ۱۹۷۶)
#Sufis #Mystics #Sufism #Mysticism #تصوف #سلوک
تمام خواتین و حضرات محفوظ کریں اور مطالعہ فرمائیں ، بہت ہی نایاب اور اعلی تصنیف ہے
Just got this wonderful book of interview reminiscences by Daryush Shayegan (1935-2018) with #RaminJahanbegloo 1/
#Shayegan was sent to school in #England after WW2 and then read philosophy, Sanskrit and literature at #Geneva 2/
#Shayegan was close to #Corbin and his life’s account is a wonderful journey in the #intellectual_history of #Iran and its encounter with #Europe 3/
#Corbin was not a thinker whose influences and interests were easily compartmentalised but rather his #Protestantism, #existentialism interest in #mysticism #RussianOrthodoxPhilosophy all came together in his study of #IranianIslam 1/
With respect to #phenomenology and #existentialism from Germany as well as #Hegelianism these were mediated by Alexander Koyré and Alexandre Kojève (1902-1968) both Russian exiles trained in Germany and teaching at #EPHE 2/
From Kojève he first came to understand the #phenomenology of #EdmundHusserl (1859-1938) who also taught #Heidegger as well as #KarlJaspers (1883-1969) who taught at #Heidelberg before being blacklisted by the Nazis 3/
The Egyptian philosopher ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Badawi (1917-2002) is perhaps one of the most underrated thinkers of #ContemporaryArabThought - a major #Heideggerian_existentialist #Sufism and #IslamicPhilosophy specialist who studied at Fuad I (later #Cairo) University 1/
Many of us who study #IslamicThought know him for his editions of #ArabicAristotle #ArabicPlato #ArabicPlotinus as well as editions of the work of #Avicenna #IbnSabin #SiwanalHikma and others - without his efforts we would not have editions of the #PlotinianaArabica 2/
In the 1930s he studied in Cairo and obtained his PhD in 1944 supervised by #AlexandreKoyré (1892-1964) on the notion of 'existential time' that engages with #Heidegger - this like his other early works was published by #DaralNahdaalMisriya 3/
#Intisharat_e_mawla published the works of Muhammad Husayn Fazil-e Tuni (1880-1960), a famous teacher of Arabic literature and philosophy in #Tehran whose students include Javadi Amoli, Hasanzadeh Amoli as well as the historian of Persian literature Zabihollah Safa (1911-1999)1/
After studies in Arabic literature, grammar and rhetoric at Madrasa-ye Navvab #Mashhad, he moved #Isfahan where he studied with Jahangir Khan Qashqai (1827-1910), Shaykh 'Abdullah Gulpayigani & Mirza Muhammad Husayn Fisharaki (d. 1932) the latter students of Akhund Khurasani 2/
with Qashqai for 6 years, he studied the #Manzume of #Sabzavari (d. 1879), the #Shifa' of #Avicenna (d. 1037), and the #Tamhidalqawaid of #IbnTurka (d. 1432), a text that was emerging in the later #Qajar period as a tool for teaching philosophical mysticism #Irfan 3/
#Intisharat_e_mawla on #Enghelab in #Tehran which is currently shut has been at the forefront of publishing on #IslamicPhilosophy and #Mysticism especially through translations of major works 1/
One of their most prolific editors and translators was the #Zahabi author #MuhammadKhajavi (1934-2012) for his work on #MullaSadra and the #IbnArabiSchool google.co.uk/amp/s/www.hams… 2/
Not entirely sure when I got hold of this book published by @maarefhekmeya but pretty decent work by #AliFazili on the semantics of being and how one applies existence to God, to humans and to the secondary intelligible of ‘existence’ in the mind #MullaSadra #IslamicPhilosophy 1/
Part of the question goes back to the problem of the subject of philosophy in Aristotle and what is meant by #being_qua_being and how we understood and delimit what we intend by the term #MullaSadra #IslamicPhilosophy 2/
It is also a useful way to making sense of the different ways in which we understand #existence in #IslamicPhilosophy #ShiiTheology and #mysticism 3/
There were a number of attempts by the #hawza to respond to the challenges of #materialism all the way from #naturalism to #Marxist #dialectical materialism including this work of #MuhammadTaqiAmuli (d. 1971 #ShiiTheology #kalam_jadid 1/
Earlier there was the poem of #MuhammadHusayn Isfahani in Najaf entitled #Tuhfat_al_hakim published in the late 90s with the glosses of #MehdiHaeriYazdi (d. 1999) #ShiiTheology #kalam_jadid 2/
#AllamaTabatabai (d. 1981) works #Usul_e_falsafeh #BidayatalHikma and #NihayatalHikma are similar responses to materialism and working out the scope for #metaphysics and the life of the mind #ShiiTheology #kalam_jadid 3/
