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Twelver Shiite dogma, it has already been noted, affirms a precise balance between the external and internal dimensions of Scripture. For the good of society as a whole, an individual’s spiritual insights into the hidden purport of sacred writ cannot take precedence over the law articulated in the literal text. Batin and zahir share equal validity.
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Farid al-Din Attar, Mantiq al-tayr, Ahmad Khoshnevis, ed. (Isfahan: Kitabkhaneh Sina’i, 1336 AH), 70–71.
Shams al-Din Hafez, Diwan-e kamil-e Hafez-e Shiraz, ed. Timur Burhan Limudhi (Teheran: Matbu’ati Kawiyan, 1363 AH), 39.
The text of Khomeini’s poem is available in Michael Fischer and Mehdi Abedi, Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990), 451–452.
Hermann Landolt, “Suhrawardi’s ‘Tales of Initiation’,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 107 (1987), 482.
W. M. Thackston, Jr., trans., The Mystical and Visionary Treatises of Shihabuddin Yahya Suhrawardi (London: Octagon Press, 1982), 84–85.
Henry Corbin, L’archange empourpré (Paris: Librairie Fayard, 1976), 170.
Thackston, op. cit., 26–34.
Thackston, op. cit., 35.
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Pinault, D. (1992). Variations on the Esoteric Tradition in Poetry and Theosophy: Examples from Attar, Hafez, and Suhrawardi of Aleppo. In: The Shiites. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-06693-0_4
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