Cryptic Cosmology in the Mystical Stories of Sheikh Eshraq

Elyasi, A.; Akhlaghi, M.

doi:10.58209/jpt.1.3.195

Cryptic Cosmology in the Mystical Stories of Sheikh Eshraq

Document Type : Original Research

Authors

A. Elyasi ¹

M. Akhlaghi ²

¹ Department of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, South Tehran Central Branch, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

² Department of Theology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, South Tehran Center Branch, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.58209/jpt.1.3.195

Abstract

Even today, Sheikh Eshraq's cryptic stories can be a great guide to us. In the sense that they can make human beings and show us the world around them. Because Sheikh in these stories regularly seek to represent the hierarchy of the universe and the position of the human in his proof that the human soul was the abstract light that originated in the set of existence. But the material body that belongs from the sacred universe has fallen to the darkness of the material universe, and it has been captured there. Then happiness comes back to its original itself. So, to identify more the main place soul of human speech in these cryptic stories, he has arranged the quadruple hierarchy of the universe based on the problem of the sulk and love between lights in the form of secret and the form of detailed that consist of universe wisdom, universe egos, objects, and purgatory universe and example universe among these factors Sheikh Eshraq emphasized the universe or imagination. It is the storytelling scene of his cryptic.

Keywords

Suhrawardi

Cryptic

Decode

Cosmology

Eshraqi's Cosmology

Cryptic Stories

Subjects

Metaphysics (Islamic)

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