- Islamic Esotericism, Shi'ism: Twelver and Isma'ili, Babism/Bayani gnostic faith, Bahaism, Hurufism, Islamic occult sources, Ahmad ibn ‘Ali ibn Yusuf al-Buni, Neoplatonism, and 9 moreHermeticism, history of the middle East, History of Iran, Traditionalism, Perennialism, Arabic Literature, Persian Literature, Hadith Al Haqiqa, and Ahl-e Haqqedit
- Independent scholar and researcher. BAs (UNM, 1994), MA (NELC, UCLA, 1997), LLB (QUT, 2003).edit
Curriculum and dhikrs for the Fusus al-Hikam course
Research Interests: Ibn Arabi, Ibn 'Arabi, self realization in Ibn Arabi, philosophical Sufism (school of Ibn 'Arabi), Sufism, Ibn al-Arabi's teachings, and 15 moreMysticism, Sufism, Ibn Arabi, Ibn Arabi School, Ibn `Arabi and Fiqh, The life and thought of the Andalusian mystical theosopher Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi, Ibn Arabi society, Ibn Al-Arabi Foundation, Islam, Sufism, Ibn Arabi, Ibn Al 'Arabi, Muhyiddin Ibn i Arabi, Ibn Al Arabi Pdf, Fusus al-Hikam, Ibn al-‘Arabī, Ibn Al 'Arabi and the search for divine truth, İbnü'l-Arabî, and Fatimiya Sufi Order
Commentary on the Ayat'ul-Bayān
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Invocation(s) to Hana'il:The Angel of the Earth.
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Fatwa 17 December 2023
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Fatwa against Temporary Pleasure Marriages
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A prayer against unjust governments to counteract the pernicious influence of Abbas Effendi's prayer for the American government.
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English translation of the fatwa of 16 June 2023 determining the licitness of execration and cursing of the tyrant.
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Persian text of fatwa deeming it licit to curse tyrants and oppressors.
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The Oath to al-Fātiḥa (qasam al-fātiḥa) based on Wahid Azal's commentary on the quranic chapter. Offered in its Arabic text and English translation.
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Being the written portion of the commentary for the Gnostic Quran podcast on Saturday, 29 April 2023 on Surah al-Fatiha.
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Fatwa against the IRI
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A letter concerning the red headed fiend (Persian)
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لوح عمّه
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Spanish translation of 2014 Reality Sandwich interview by Mohammad Rahal (South American khalifa of the NUR-Fatimiya Sufi Order).
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غضابية
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Persian letter to the Remeyite-Marangellist guardian, Nosratullah Bahremand, sent on 5 January 2022.
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لوح الإزدواج
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English translation from the original Arabic
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the Supplication to the Radiant One (duʿā al-zahrāʾīyah)
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the Supplication to the Radiant One (duʿā al-zahrāʾīyah)
Research Interests: Prayer, Histori of Imami Shiism, Contemplative Prayer, Shiism, Shiite Islam, Shii Islam, Esoteric Prayer, and 15 moreBabism/Bayani gnostic faith, Bahaism, Hurufism, Babism, Fatima, Spirituality and Prayer, Fatima/Shiism, Prayer Books, Shiism, Shiism Philosophy, Martyrdom and Shiism, Fátima, Prayer and Healing, Twelver Shiism, Azali Babism, Bábism and Baha'ism, and Fatimiya Sufi Order
دعاء الزّهرائية
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English translation of the Arabic hymn of Blessings upon the Talismanic-Temples of Unity (ṣalawāt ʿalā hayākil al-wāḥid)
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صلوات على هياكل الواحد
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Appointment of a Witness of the Bayān to Europe.
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The Lineage (silsilah) of the NUR-Fāṭimīya Sufi Order
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The Basic Daily Devotional Practice of the NUR-Fātimīya Ṣufī Order and the Fātimīya ṣalāt
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Brief commentary/midrash on Genesis 1:1
Research Interests: Comparative Esotericism, Book of Genesis, Western Esotericism (History), Literature and Esotericism, Kabbalah, and 15 moreSuhrawardi, Commentary Traditions, Commentary, Esotericism, Western Esotericism, Contemporary Kabbalah, Babism/Bayani gnostic faith, Bahaism, Hurufism, Babism, Shiism, Practical Kabbalah, BERESHITH, Azali Babism, Bereshit, Bábism and Baha'ism, and Fatimiya Sufi Order
The 19 Commandments of the Religion of the NUR-Fatimiya
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A brief commentary on one of the most controversial passages in the Arabic and Persian Bayans which both Muslims and Baha'is have misunderstand and misinterpreted since the late 1840s.
Following an eighteen month email dialogue commencing in late 2012, in March 2014 Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Sadeq Hussaini Rohani -- one of the eminent Iranian religious sources of emulation (marjaʿ taqlīd) of Qom, Iran -- issued a fatwa... more
Following an eighteen month email dialogue commencing in late 2012, in March 2014 Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Sadeq Hussaini Rohani -- one of the eminent Iranian religious sources of emulation (marjaʿ taqlīd) of Qom, Iran -- issued a fatwa (ruling) determining that the use of entheogenic plants and substances under the guidance of qualified experts is permissible (ḥalāl) for Twelver Shiʿi Muslims and therefore not forbidden (ḥarām) by the sharīʿa. This talk will briefly discuss the historical context and theoretical underpinnings which made such a momentous jurisprudential ruling from the seat of Iranian orthodoxy possible. It will offer a short biography of this leading dissident Iranian cleric himself, and also touch upon the pervasive presence of entheogenic plants and substances within Iranian culture and spirituality as far back as ancient antiquity: https://youtu.be/t4zYDjE2TRo
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The Great Hymn to Fāṭima
Adapted from the Great Hymn to the Goddess in the Devi Mahatyman
Adapted from the Great Hymn to the Goddess in the Devi Mahatyman
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لَوْحُ الدَّعْوَةِ لِأَهْلِ البَيَانِ
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The second part of a response commentary on Bayan 1.4.
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A commentary in Arabic on Bayan gate 1, Unity 4.
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Arabic text of Subh-i-Azal's commentary on the Light Verse of the Qur'an (24:35).
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A Theurgic Prayer invoking the powers of Light
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Translation, commentary, transcription and notes on a short piece by the Bab.
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Fatwa against Paul Schuhl ENGLISH TRANSLATION
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فتوى بر عليه پال شول
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English translation of A Treatise on Woman, Life, Freedom
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Spanish translation of the On The Symbolism of the NUR Calligram by Mohammad Rahal.
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Tablet to the people of Hot Air regarding the House in Shiraz
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The Gematria of the 385 Supreme Names.
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Treatise on "Life, Woman, Freedom" (in Persian).
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Or a short 'Epistle to the Son of a Bitch'
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English translation of fatwa against the IRI
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A Feminist Revolution in Iran?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/09/30/a-feminist-revolution-in-iran/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/09/30/a-feminist-revolution-in-iran/
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جواب به إسم الله الطابع
در بارۀ هي يُظهرها الله جلّ شأنها العليا
در بارۀ هي يُظهرها الله جلّ شأنها العليا
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A short commentary on the Surah 97 of the Qurʾan and the Night of Power by Subh-i-Azal
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Los 19 Mandamientos: The 19 Commandments in Spanish
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O Breaker of All Idols or The senile ramblings of Mirzā Ḥusayn ʿAlī Nurī Bahā’u’llāh (d. 1892) in Tablet of O Creator of all creation!
Research Interests: Baha'i studies, Baha'i, Bahai, Baha'i, Babism/Bayani gnostic faith, Bahaism, Hurufism, Babism, and 14 moreBabi and Baha'i Faiths, Baha'i Faith and Evolution, Baha'i Studies;, Baha'i theology, Baha'i Faith, Babi Baha'i Bahai history Bahaullah Baha'u'llah Bab, History of Baha'i holy places, Baha'i inspired Model, Bahá'í, Bahá'í consultation, Azali Babism, Baha'i poetry, Bábism and Baha'ism, and Bahá’í Faith
Translation and commentary on the 6th gate of the 6th Unity of The Persian Bayān
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English translation (from Arabic) of a Short treatise Regarding the Pure Noēsis of God and Wayfaring towards It
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في معرفة الله البحت
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Invoking the Seven Worlds
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أباجد أسماء الكلّشئ
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Cover page Metatron's Cube reproduced with kind permission of Charles Gilchrist© 2003. Illustration Conference of the Divine Names reproduced with permission of EJ Brill publishers from ISLAMIC SAINTHOOD IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME:... more
Cover page Metatron's Cube reproduced with kind permission of Charles Gilchrist© 2003. Illustration Conference of the Divine Names reproduced with permission of EJ Brill publishers from ISLAMIC SAINTHOOD IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME: IBN AL-ARABI'S THE ...
Reza Zia-Ebrahimi revisits the work of Fathali Akhundzadeh and Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani, two Qajar-era intellectuals who founded modern Iranian nationalism. In their efforts to make sense of a difficult historical situation, these thinkers... more
Reza Zia-Ebrahimi revisits the work of Fathali Akhundzadeh and Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani, two Qajar-era intellectuals who founded modern Iranian nationalism. In their efforts to make sense of a difficult historical situation, these thinkers advanced an appealing ideology Zia-Ebrahimi calls dislocative nationalism, in which pre-Islamic Iran is cast as a golden age, Islam is racialized as an alien religion, and Arabs become implacable others. Dislodging Iran from its empirical reality and tying it to Europe and the Aryan race, this ideology remains the most sophisticated and politically potent form of identity in Iran.
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A Short Treatise in explication regarding the gnosis of the Theophanic stations of the Calligram of the Greatest Name of God
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The Soul of Holiness: The Recital of Life
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MYSTERIES OF THE TASBĪḤ Al-FĀṬIMA
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The first chapter of Ṣubḥ-i-Azal’s Book of the Talismanic-Temples.
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Ṣubḥ-i-Azal on kawr (aeon) and dawr (cycle) or Ṣubḥ-i-Azal’s solar calendar of 19 months and 365 days. Corrected and revised version.
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A Prayer to Mullā Ḥusayn Bushrūʾī (d. 1849)
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A Kabbalistic Commentary on the Bismillāh by Wahid Azal.
Research Interests: Comparative Esotericism, Sufism, Islam, Contemporary Sufism, Tarot, and 13 moreKabbalah, Commentary, Esotericism, Western Esotericism, Numerology, Babism/Bayani gnostic faith, Bahaism, Hurufism, Shiism, Lettrism, Kabbalah and science, Shekinah, Theotokos, Women Mystics, Practical Kabbalah, Azali Babism, and Wahid Azal
On the Symbolism of the N.U.R. calligram
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The basic symbolism of the Book of the Supreme Names (kitāb al-asmāʾ al-aʿlā)
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The correspondence of Mirza Yahya Nuri Subh-i-Azal (d. 1912) with the Bab.
Research Interests: Bahái, Baha'i studies, Iranian Studies, Islamic Studies, History of the Babí and Bahá'í Faiths in Nayriz, and 15 moreMetaphysics, Baha'i, Bahai, Baha'i, Babism/Bayani gnostic faith, Bahaism, Hurufism, Babism, Babi and Baha'i Faiths, Islamic Studies, Iranian Studies, Babi and Baha'i Studies, Baha'i Studies;, Baha'i Faith, Islam, Shi'A, Baha'I, Babi Baha'i Bahai history Bahaullah Baha'u'llah Bab, Bahaism, Baha'I History, Baha’ism, Azali Babism, and Subh-i-Azal
A fatwa ruling by N. Wahid Azal on homosexuality in the religion of the Bayan.
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N. Wahid Azal's translation of the Bayānī Obligatory Prayer for Fridays
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Prayers for birth and death in the Bayān (ﺖ ّ ﻣ و ﻟﻮد ﻣﻮ ﳕﺎزﻫﺎى) and a short commentary on their inner significance N. Wahid Azal © 2018
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A short note on the “Hidden Treasure” and the major lacuna in sourcing the earliest transmissions for this Ḥadīth Qudsī.
Research Interests: Sufism, Hadith Studies, Twelver Shi'ism, Shi'ism: Twelver and Isma'ili, Al-Quran & Al-Hadith, and 15 moreHadith, Shiism, Shiite Islam, Shii Islam, Hadiths and historical criticism, History of Imami Shiism, Fatima/Shiism, Shiism, Quran Hadith and Modern Science, Litarature of Hadith, Rise of Shiism In Iran, Transmitting Hadith, The Hadith, Qur'anic and Hadith sciences, Hadith Sciences, Hadith Qudsi, and Islamic Sacred Texts (Quran, Hadith, hadith qudsi, and sirah)
This autograph MS of the Arabic Bayān is mentioned by Denis MacEoin in Sources for Early Bābī Doctrine and History: A Survey (Leiden and New York: E.J. Brill, 1992), 85, and Appendix One (7th item under al-Bayān al-ʿArabī), 181. The... more
This autograph MS of the Arabic Bayān is mentioned by Denis MacEoin in Sources for Early Bābī Doctrine and History: A Survey (Leiden and New York: E.J. Brill, 1992), 85, and Appendix One (7th item under al-Bayān al-ʿArabī), 181. The autograph, however, does not go beyond chapter (unity/wāḥid) 9 and only consists of two leaves. One anomalous feature is that the first leaf vertically consists of chapters 1, 3, 4 and 5 with the second leaf (also vertically) running as chapters 6 then 2 and 7, 8 and 9. This incomplete codex MS of the Arabic Bayān was consulted for the 1940s lithograph edition of the text published in Iran (which was published alongside the haykal al-dīn/talisman of the religion with its incomplete commentary): a lithograph edition published on the basis of the handwritten transcription made by ʿAbdu’l-ʿAlī Azal (the son of Ṣubḥ-i-Azal) which was discussed here (Book 32, item v.), https://www.academia.edu/29688574/A_Preliminary_Survey_of_the_Cyprus_Bay%C4%81n%C4%AB_Corpus_Part_I_The_Works_of_the_B%C4%81b.
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Suhrawardī’s invocations to the Seven Planetary Intelligences
Arabic text transcribed and vocalized from MS AyaSofia 2144.
Arabic text transcribed and vocalized from MS AyaSofia 2144.
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This article discusses the organizational hierarchy of the Bābīs during the period of Ṣubḥ-i-Azal's (d. 1912) concealment from the public and his residency in Baghdad between the years 1852 to 1863. It pursues an analytic... more
This article discusses the organizational hierarchy of the Bābīs during the period of Ṣubḥ-i-Azal's (d. 1912) concealment from the public and his residency in Baghdad between the years 1852 to 1863. It pursues an analytic historiographical and textual critical approach by mainly utilizing primary and secondary sources in Arabic, Persian and English belonging to both the Bayānīs (i.e. Azalīs) and the Bahāʾīs alike. First by offering some brief context, it will explain this organizational hierarchy of the Bābīs during the Middle Bābī period (1850-66), highlighting the role and function of the witnesses of the Bayān (shuhadāʾ-i-bayān). More importantly, it will introduce a hitherto unknown work (and primary source) of Ṣubḥ-i-Azal's from that era, namely the kitāb al-waṣīya (the Book of the Testament), wherein seven to eight prominent Bābīs of that period were appointed to the rank. The two presently known MSS of this work will be discussed, as well as extensively quoted in translation, with the individuals named in it identified. The sectarian narratives (with their conflicting authority claims) dividing the Bayānīs (i.e. Azalīs) and Bahāʾīs over the history of the period will be critically evaluated while also briefly revisiting the 'episode of Dayyān'. It will conclude by proposing the untenability of the terms 'Azalī' and 'Azalī Bābism'. This study supplements Denis MacEoin's two articles on the subject published during the 1980s.
Research Interests: History, Middle East Studies, Middle East History, Baha'i studies, Iranian Studies, and 22 moreHistory of Iran, Islamic Studies, Islam, Iranian History, Qajar Persia, Histori of Imami Shiism, Shiism, Shiite Islam, Shii Islam, Baha'i, Babism/Bayani gnostic faith, Bahaism, Hurufism, Babism, Schism, Babi and Baha'i Faiths, Baha'u'llah, Qajar Iran, Shiism, Baha'i Faith, Shiite Material Culture, Shiite Studies, Jewish, Christian, Babi and Baha'i studies, Babi Baha'i Bahai history Bahaullah Baha'u'llah Bab, Azali Babism, and Subh-i-Azal
An Exorcism Charm Attributed to ʿAlī An exorcism charm attributed to ʿAlī in Ibn Ṭāwwūs’s muhaj al-daʿwāt wa minhaj al-ʿibāda (The Spirit-Heart of Invocations and the Path of Worship): Introduction, Critical Translation, Plates and... more
An Exorcism Charm Attributed to ʿAlī
An exorcism charm attributed to ʿAlī in Ibn Ṭāwwūs’s muhaj al-daʿwāt wa minhaj al-ʿibāda (The Spirit-Heart of Invocations and the Path of Worship): Introduction, Critical Translation, Plates and Critical Notes.
An exorcism charm attributed to ʿAlī in Ibn Ṭāwwūs’s muhaj al-daʿwāt wa minhaj al-ʿibāda (The Spirit-Heart of Invocations and the Path of Worship): Introduction, Critical Translation, Plates and Critical Notes.
Research Interests: Magic, Islamic Studies, Islam, Magic and the Occult (Anthropology Of Religion), Occulture, and 18 moreOccultism, Exorcism, Occult Sciences, Shiism, Shiite Islam, Shii Islam, Occult Sciences in Islam, History of Imami Shiism, Exorcisms, Ali ibn Abi Talib, Imam 'Ali ibn Abi Talib, Shiism, Islamic magic, Shiite, Shiite Studies, Islamic Magic, Shiite Spiritual Sciences, Islamic Alchemy & Magic, Islamicate magic, and Twelver Shiism
Introduction, Provisional Translation, Transcription, MS, Printed Text and Notes to "The Prayer of the Forty Idrīsid Names" (arbaʿūn al-asmāʾ al-idrīsīya).
Research Interests: Prayer, Islamic Studies, Sufism, Magic and the Occult (Anthropology Of Religion), Hermeticism (Anthropology), and 34 moreOccultism, Tariqa Sufism, Sufism in the Formative Period, Suhrawardi, Occult, Sufism (mysticism), Shi'ism and Islamic eschatology, Histori of Imami Shiism, Hermeticism, Intellectual history of early Islam, Shiia, esp. Ismailis, Occult Sciences, Occult Esoteric Magick Spirituality, Shiism, Shiite Islam, Shii Islam, Esoteric Prayer, Al Suhrawardi, Suhrawardi Maqtul, Sufism and social spirituality, Cosmopolitan Sufism & Religiosity, philosophical Sufism (school of Ibn 'Arabi), Occult Sciences in Islam, History of Imami Shiism, Sufisme, Early Sufism, Shihab al-Din al-Suhrawardi al-Maqtul and his school of thought, Shiism, Shiite Studies, Suhreverdi, Sufism and Tasawwuf, Ishraq, Idris, History of Hermeticism, Suhrawardî, Ishraqi philosophy, Ishraqi thought, and Umar al-Suhrawardi
Answers to questions put to Wahid Azal (November 2017).
Research Interests: Comparative Esotericism, Iranian Studies, Theurgy, Goddess Spirituality, Islamic Esotericism, and 9 moreEsotericism, Sufism (mysticism), Shi'ism and Islamic eschatology, Shaykhiyya, Babism/Bayani gnostic faith, Bahaism, Hurufism, Babism, Islamic Esoteric Traditions and Mysticism, Semitic and Islamic esoterica, Shaykhism, and Islamic esoteric science
An augmented version of the CP article of 2 November 2016 that was subsequently under pressure taken down from the site. The present version provides additional information and analysis not contained in the earlier piece.
Research Interests: Geopolitics, Iranian Studies, Tantric Studies, Corruption (Corruption), Turkey, and 48 moreSufism, Political Corruption, Traditionalism, Jordan, Freemasonry, Contemporary Sufism, Tariqa Sufism, Eurasianism, Ibn Arabi, Republican Party, Russia, Gulf Arab States, Wikileaks, Nudity, Algeria, Bethesda, United States, René Guénon, Henry A. Kissinger, Oxford University Press, Switzerland, CIA, George W. Bush, Frithjof Schuon, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Great Britain, Basel, Ali Shariati, Deep State, Baha'u'llah, Al Jazeera, Shiism, Left-Hand Path, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Bloomington, Indiana, Mi6, John McCain, Sunnism, Alexander Dugin, Martin Lings, Shaykh Ahmad Al-'Alawī, CENTCOM, Maryamiyyah, Maryamiya, Vali-Reza Nasr, Court of Saint James, Richard Helms, and Reza Baraheni
About the publisher Arktos, its linkages, and the nazification of Anglo-American "regime change" propaganda against Iran.
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Draft chapter 15 On the card of Eve from THE BOOK OF THE TREE OF HERMES: An Introduction to the NUR Tarot.
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A sample of the draft of chapter 1 from The Book of the Tree of Hermes (c) Wahid Azal.
Research Interests: Tarots (Art), Tarot, Past lives, oracles, tarot, Tarot cards, Astrology, Kabala, Methods of Analyzing and Learning the Tarot, and 10 moreMethods of Analyzing the Tarot, Methods of Learning the Tarot, Tarot Studies, Tarot Images, Tarot Symbolism, Tarot History, Tarot Cards, Tarot Card Reading, arcanos menores tarot, and The Tarot
Wahid Azal © "Woman, life, and freedom": Will Iran become the first social democratic feminist Revolution in history overthrowing Islamist patriarchy?
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The first chapter of THE EFFULGENCES OF WISDOM, being Wahid Azal's response to Ibn ' Arabi's BEZEL'S OF WISDOM.
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Annulment of Yaḥyā Dawlatābādī's infamous 1935 judgement
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The following translation of the first eleven Divine Names of the eighth chapter of the first book of al-Būnī’s ‘Great Sun of Gnoses’ has been made from both the Beirut printed edition (1420 AH/2000 CE: 67-70) as well as the critical... more
The following translation of the first eleven Divine Names of the eighth chapter of the first book of al-Būnī’s ‘Great Sun of Gnoses’ has been made from both the Beirut printed edition (1420 AH/2000 CE: 67-70) as well as the critical Arabic text provided in Jamie Coullaut Cordero’s digitally published PhD dissertation, El Kitāb Šams al-Ma‘ārif al-Kubra (al-ŷuz’ al-awwal) de Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Būnī: Sufismos y ciencias ocultas, University of Salamanca, 2009: 104-7 (PDF: 142-5). This publication is merely a sample from an ongoing translation. The entire book and its chapter have already been translated by us. Here a sample is being offered to the numerical value of Hūwa (=11).
Research Interests: Magic, Magic and the Occult (Anthropology Of Religion), Ahmad ibn ‘Ali ibn Yusuf al-Buni, The Ninety-Nine Divine Names, Divine names, and 9 moreAl Buni, Islamic magic, Divine names; magic gems; angelology. chalcedony. Exorcistic formulas, Ahmed Al Buni, Islamic Alchemy & Magic, Divine Names Tradition, Islamicate magic, Islamic Theurgy, and Shams al-Ma'arif
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Review of Reza Zia Ebrahimi's THE EMERGENCE OF IRANIAN NATIONALISM: Race and the Politics of Dislocation, Columbia, 2016.
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After over one-hundred years, the private collection of Azali Babi (Bayani) writings and manuscripts in the keeping of the family and descendants of the Azali Babi (Bayani) patriarch Mirza Yahya Nuri Subh-i-Azal (d. 1912) on the island of... more
After over one-hundred years, the private collection of Azali Babi (Bayani) writings and manuscripts in the keeping of the family and descendants of the Azali Babi (Bayani) patriarch Mirza Yahya Nuri Subh-i-Azal (d. 1912) on the island of Cyprus have emerged, currently all in the process of being digitally scanned. This corpus of Babi texts are inclusive of the works of both Siyyid Ali Muhammad Shirazi, the Bab (d. 1850), as well as his successor Subh-i-Azal, the majority of whose transcriptions were made by Subh-i-Azal himself. In this first part those MSS of the works of the Bab in this collection are itemized and its contents briefly discussed.
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A review of the ongoing Iranian series Shahrzad.
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Broken Silence: A review of Tahirih Thealogy: Female Cosmic Christ Spirit of the Age Concealed No Longer By Starr Saffa
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Review of Zia-Ebrahimi's 2016 book "The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism: Race and the Politics of Dislocation," published in The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, volume 44, 2017.
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An Epistle to the Bayanis.
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Persian translation of the Bezel of the Wisdom of Pointhood in the Word of Ali Muhammad.
Research Interests: Ibn Arabi, Ibn 'Arabi, self realization in Ibn Arabi, Babism/Bayani gnostic faith, Bahaism, Hurufism, Babism, and 8 morephilosophical Sufism (school of Ibn 'Arabi), Environmentalism, Sufism, Ibn Arabi, The life and thought of the Andalusian mystical theosopher Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi, Islam, Sufism, Ibn Arabi, Muhyiddin Ibn i Arabi, Azali Babism, Bábism and Baha'ism, and Fatimiya Sufi Order
Arabic text of the Bezel of the Wisdom of Pointhood in the Word of Ali Muhammad.
Research Interests: Ibn Arabi, Ibn 'Arabi, self realization in Ibn Arabi, Babism/Bayani gnostic faith, Bahaism, Hurufism, Babism, and 9 morephilosophical Sufism (school of Ibn 'Arabi), The life and thought of the Andalusian mystical theosopher Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi, Islam, Sufism, Ibn Arabi, Ibn Al 'Arabi, Muhyiddin Ibn i Arabi, Azali Babism, Ibn al-‘Arabī, Bábism and Baha'ism, and Fatimiya Sufi Order
The 29th and final chapter of the Bezels of Wisdom (fusus al-hikam) by Wahid Azal.
Research Interests: Ibn Arabi, Ibn 'Arabi, Babism/Bayani gnostic faith, Bahaism, Hurufism, Babism, philosophical Sufism (school of Ibn 'Arabi), and 11 moreSufism, Ibn al-Arabi's teachings, Mysticism, Sufism, Ibn Arabi, Environmentalism, Sufism, Ibn Arabi, The life and thought of the Andalusian mystical theosopher Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi, Islam, Sufism, Ibn Arabi, Ibn Al 'Arabi, Muhyiddin Ibn i Arabi, Azali Babism, Ibn al-‘Arabī, Bábism and Baha'ism, and Fatimiya Sufi Order
Full text of The Completion of the Arabic Bayān and the Eight Paths
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Persian/Arabic text of "The Iridescent Spiritual Sprinklings concerning the Tradition of Ultimate Reality: Or the Commentary on the Ḥadīth Kumayl" (rashaḥāt al-barīqa fī sharḥ al-ḥadīth al-ḥaqīqa: yā sharḥ-i-ḥadīth-i-kumayl).
Research Interests: Histori of Imami Shiism, Shiism, Shiite Islam, Shii Islam, Babism/Bayani gnostic faith, Bahaism, Hurufism, Babism, History of Imami Shiism, and 10 moreFatima/Shiism, Shiism Philosophy, Anthropology of Shiism, Hadith Al Haqiqa, Iranian Shiism, Twelver Shiism, Azali Babism, Bábism and Baha'ism, Sufism and Shiism, and Fatimiya Sufi Order
The promotional back cover for the Arabic language section of The Completion of the Arabic Bayān And the Eight Paths
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The promotional English opening pages to The Completion of the Arabic Bayān And the Eight Paths.
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Front cover of The Completion of the Arabic Bayān and the Eight Paths
https://www.amazon.com/Completion-Arabic-Bay%C4%81n-Eight-Paths-ebook/dp/B0BN4S8LHW/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
https://www.amazon.com/Completion-Arabic-Bay%C4%81n-Eight-Paths-ebook/dp/B0BN4S8LHW/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
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Being the publicized prologemenon to The Completion of the Arabic Bayān and the Eight Paths, published in hardcover and ebook versions in November 2022. Ebook... more
Being the publicized prologemenon to The Completion of the Arabic Bayān and the Eight Paths, published in hardcover and ebook versions in November 2022.
Ebook https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BN4S8LHW/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3FMD8OZ28LB93&keywords=Wahid+Azal&qid=1669154596&s=books&sprefix=wahid+az%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C302&sr=1-1
Hardcover https://www.amazon.com/Completion-Arabic-Bay%C4%81n-Eight-Paths/dp/B0BMTBF5HJ/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1669154596&sr=1-1
Ebook https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BN4S8LHW/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3FMD8OZ28LB93&keywords=Wahid+Azal&qid=1669154596&s=books&sprefix=wahid+az%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C302&sr=1-1
Hardcover https://www.amazon.com/Completion-Arabic-Bay%C4%81n-Eight-Paths/dp/B0BMTBF5HJ/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1669154596&sr=1-1
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هذا كتاب مِن عند الباء لِلثّاء إلى الواوْ الّذي الهم مِن الغيب على نوره بِالحقّ وإنّه كتابًا قصيرًا حيث تحتوي على أربعة شأنٍ مِن شؤون الخمسة وتلك شهادة على العالمين وعدد البسملة لها هي بِالعددين حيات وبِهاهوت وأنّها مكونة مِن الأسماء ٣۱٥... more
هذا كتاب مِن عند الباء لِلثّاء إلى الواوْ الّذي الهم مِن الغيب على نوره بِالحقّ وإنّه كتابًا قصيرًا حيث تحتوي على أربعة شأنٍ مِن شؤون الخمسة وتلك شهادة على العالمين وعدد البسملة لها هي بِالعددين حيات وبِهاهوت وأنّها مكونة مِن الأسماء ٣۱٥ و ٩۲ مِن كتاب الأسماء الكلّشيء وبِهذه العظة الافتتاحية والخطبة الختامية منصوصًا عليها في ٦٣ صفحة بِعدد البيان وبِدون العظة الافتتاحية منصوصًا عليها في ٦۲ صفحة بِعدد إسم الله الباطن والكتاب يتكون مِن ۱٩ سُوَر عزيّة محبوبية بِعدد الهُدى لعلّ يصبح هدىً واحدًا لِمَن في سماوات الأمر والخلق وما بينهمّا كلّ عباد له وكلّشيء في يوم القيامة إلى ربّهم يرجعون
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LIBER DECATRIARCHIA MYSTICA: Sketchings of the Thirteen Encompassing Spheres of the Tree of Reality and assorted material
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Prayer from the 14th gate of the 12th Unity of the Persian Bayān
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The First Unity (chapter) of the Arabic Bayān of Siyyid ʿAlī Muḥammad Shīrāzī, the Bāb (d. 1850) with commentary by Wahid Azal.
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فصل اوّل كتاب التبيين الشريف در تفسير واحد اوّل بيان فارسى
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Instructions to those among the people of Hot Air wishing to abandon Hot Airism and enter the Light