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Rezvan E. The Qur’ān and Its World: III. “Echoings of Universal Harmonies” (Prophetic Revelation, Religious Inspiration, Occult Practice) // Manuscripta Orientalia. Vol. 3. No. 3. November 1997. P. 11—21.

Резван, Ефим Анатольевич

Among the most important aspects of the traditional worldview of Muslim peoples is the idea that it is possible to establish contact with certain higher forces, with divinity. This concerns not only contact with God through prayers for help in the everyday affairs of “this life" and for the mitigation of retribution in the after-life. Such is the contact accessible to “mere mortals.” But the prophets, the saints (awlīyā'), Ṣūfī shaykhs and Shi‘ite imāms also establish contact with God, and this "contact" is of an entirely different nature. To this latter realm belong the ecstatic and occult practices which form an important part of popular Islamic belief.

An analysis of the corresponding ideas and behavioural stereotypes is, in our view, important if we are to understand and to interpret adequately the traditional principles underlying the cognition of reality, the particularities of a traditional world-model, and the interrelation of an ideal standard and actual religious practice.

Before turning to the sources of these ideas, the analysis of which is of great significance for understanding the problem as a whole, it is necessary to dwell at least briefly on how phenomena of this sort are treated by contemporary religious studies and a number of adjacent disciplines...

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