In the time of quarantine, I've started to read Persian mystics. I'm now convinced more than ever that they were all insurgent philosophers under hypercamouflage. Who says 'اَهدِم الکعبه' unless a true promethean who wants human storm the heavens?
Will compile a list but to be honest there is a lot of drudgery in these works. Thirty pages of praising irrelevant entities like Allah and the local governor just to deliver one punchline.
-
-
How is praising Allah irrelevant? The entire Death-based and heart based mysticism of quzat is based on the mystical union of the Ghayb, the radiance of Allah and the boundless knowledge worlds which pervade the non-disclosed yet existent space of the Ghayb. Allah is the entirety
-
The entire point of Persian mysticism is to terminate the illusion of Allah qua a a perfected totality as defined in the religious code. Within this gesture there lies a fundamental challenge to organized religion and their canons.
- 1 more reply
New conversation -
-
-
Same also applies to the logic and metaphysical works of people like Subrawardi, not to mention Rumi, Bayazid Bastami etc. or do you honestly think their ontology, theology, metaphysics and so forth can be so neatly divided? I doubt they’d agree.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.