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Nekoomanesh Fard N, Hosseini Moakhar S M, Ghasemzadeh S A. (2025). Review and Analysis of the Most Important Sufis Approaches to Astronomy and Astrology. JIM. 16(2), : 17 doi:10.22034/16.2.18
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According to their beliefs, Sufis had a cautious approach to the knowledge that could be suspected of being against religion. Uranology was one of the most important of these non-divine sciences. The main question of this research, which was carried out by descriptive-analytical method relying on the sources of mystical prose until the end of the ninth century, is to identify the most important Sufis' approaches to astronomy and astrology. The findings show that Sufis had four approaches, including silence, rejection, complete acceptance, and relative acceptance to astronomy and astrology, which was based on their beliefs, ontology, and cautions. In the silence approach, it is not possible to know the author's belief about this knowledge; the rejection approach resulted from the general opposition to non-divine sciences, and the complete acceptance approach agreed with both astronomy and astrology. The relative acceptance approach can be divided into four states: acceptance of astronomy as a necessary science, acceptance of astronomy as a way of knowing God, opposition to astrology, and scientific interpretation of astronomical phenomena. In most cases, Sufis have warned their disciples against uranology, especially astrology, because they considered it to cause pride, suspicion, misguidance, and even polytheism.
Article number: 17
Type of Study: Research |
Subject:
تصوف و عرفان
Received: 2023/05/22 | Accepted: 2023/08/29 | Published: 2025/07/22
Received: 2023/05/22 | Accepted: 2023/08/29 | Published: 2025/07/22
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