THE AMEŠA SPENTA AND THE BIBLE

The Ameša Spenta and the Bible[1] JOSÉ ANTONIO ANTÓN PACHECO (Universidad de Sevilla)   The influence of Iranian religiosity on the Bible, especially angelology, is already a hotly contested question. We are going to make a new cove on this topic, paying special attention to the figures of the Ameša Spenta of Zoroastrianism. Let us then approach these Blessed Saints

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THE TREATISE ON THE LETTERS

THE TREATISE ON THE LETTERS (RISĀLAT AL-ḤURŪF) DEL SUFÍ SAHL AL-TUSTARĪ PILAR GARRIDO CLEMENTE Universidad de Muhammad V, Rabat Summary This article presents the first translation into another language of a key work, in Arabic, by the mystic Sahl al-Tustarī (9th century), one of the first Qur’anic exegetes in the formative period of Sufism. In this Opuscule which, due to

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PERSIAN MYSTICISM AND THE PRIMORDIAL LIGHT: SOHRAVARDĪ

Shihāb al-Dīn Yaḥyā Sohravardī (1155-1191), is one of the most outstanding exponents of the Enlightenment philosophy of all time. The originality of his thought lies in an attempt that could be described as dramatic, since he paid with his life the price of his ideas, to reconcile the Zoroastrian tradition before Islam with the legacy of Greek Peripatetic philosophy and

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