“Buddhist sources of Islamic mysticism until 6th Hegira (Zuhd, Zekr and Fanaa)”
- Author:
- Sodabeh Khajehali
- Level:
- Master
- Subject(s):
- Non-Abrahamic religions
- Language:
- Farsi
- Faculty:
- Faculty of Religions
- Year:
- 2014
- Publisher:
- URD Press
- Supervisor(s):
- Khalil Ghanbari
- Advisor(s):
- Mohammad Nasiri
This thesis is about Buddhist sources of Islamic mysticism especially about Zuhd, Zekr and Fanaa, until 6th Hegira. It seems that Islamic mysticism especially in” Khorasan School” is affected by Buddhist mysticism. In the thesis, the similarities of Zuhd, Zekr and Fanaa in Islamic mysticism with Asceticism, Meditation and Nirvana in Buddhism have been studied. Both Schools took self, pests and levels of perfection into consideration seriously and therefore Asceticism, Meditation and Mention play important roles in them. These two Schools believe in Unity of Existence when it comes to Theoretical Mysticism. Having these similarities, it seems that both of them have had identical source and have cultivated and basically come from the same cultural context. Finally the thesis concluded that the Mysticism of Khorasan School has some differences with Buddhism because of different point of view and origin instead of many similarities. Islamic mysticism emphasize that God is so intimately connected to human existence, without which the human cannot be defined. In fact this unity means that if the human knows himself, he can know God and for achieving the Knowledge of God he just reach his Conscience through his appearance. In this case he would be able to get that there is no existence without God