فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

For a long time, light has had a prominent place in metaphysical thoughts. In the ancient world, religions such as Hellenistic religions like Mithraism and the Manichaean religion focused on the element of light in their intellectual system. In the Abrahamic religions based on the teachings of the Holy Bible and the Holy Quran, the element of light became the divine inspiration of many scholars and mystics for thinking. The role of light in the thought of Muslim and Christian mystics can be analyzed in the field of ontology, epistemology, and mystical deportment education (Tarbiyyati Sulūkī). Sayyid Ḥaydar Āmulī stands at the intersection of Shiʿite tradition and Ibn ʿArabī's intellectual system. His light-knowledge is based on Qurʾanic verses, hadiths of Shiʿite Imāms, and the general framework of Ibn ʿArabī's thought. Continuing the authentic monasticism left over from the tradition of the desert fathers and based on her revelation, St Hildegard achieved a deep and broad understanding of light in the metaphysics of the universe, which caused her to concentrate her most attention in writing books and composing her prayers on the theme of light and illumination. In this article, we compare the way these two mystics look at light.