Journal of Islamic Mysticism

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Kakai Q, vatankhah A. (2020). The Epistemology of Shi'a Mysticism with Emphasis on the Comprehensive Essay of Sayyid Heydar Amoli. JIM. 12(1), 141-161.
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The book "Jame chr('39')al-Asrar va manba ‘al-anvar " is the most important mystical book of Seyyed Haidar Amoli, a Shiite mystic and commentator of the eighth century AH. In this book, Seyyed Haidar applies and proves the most fundamental subject of Islamic mysticism, which is "monotheism and monotheistic" based on the original Shiite sources, that is revelation, narration and reason and  Ibn Arabichr('39')s discovery  on the issue of "guardianship" Considers it incomplete and the result of religious prejudice and by believing in the three levels of religion, he considers "canon (religious law), religious path, and Truth" as the only hierarchical truth  and he believes they are a single truth and are not separate and ultimately limit original mysticism to the right religion of Shiism. Therefore, one of the most important motives for writing this book was to explain the "truth of Shiism" and to defend the legitimacy of Shiite beliefs. In designing all mystical issues, he uses revelation and reason and discovery based on the original Shiite thought with the focus on the prophetic and Alavi " guardianship ", so it can be said that the ruling spirit of this book is the principles of Shiite ijtihad.The forthcoming research, in addition to the most important characteristics and principles of Shiite mysticism, emphasizes this valuable book such as "Belief in Existential Monotheism, Belief in the Equality and Objectivity of Twelver Shiites with True Sufism, Reliance of Shiite Mysticism on the Source of Revelation and Narration, Belief in rationality of Mysticism Shiism and the adaptation of taste to reason and…” In area, the principles of mystical epistemology have been extracted, analyzed and explained.