Undoubtedly, Islamic philosophy and mysticism, which have gone through many ups and downs throughout their history, contain deep thoughts and advantages that cannot be found in the philosophies and mysticisms that have been cultivated in the lap of other religions, and therefore they may not be easily ignored. It is not possible to understand Islamic philosophy without understanding the importance of Islamic mysticism and its influence on many main figures of Islamic philosophy, from Farabi and Ibn Sina to contemporary figures. In the same way, the understanding of Islamic mysticism, whose growth and evolution has been largely influenced by Islamic philosophy. In this article, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, while exploring the historical relationship between Islamic philosophy and mysticism, gives clues that can be used to measure the relationship between these two branches of knowledge and to recognize their contributions to each other.
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"Understanding Islamic philosophy is not possible without understanding the importance of Islamic mysticism and its influence on many of the main figures of Islamic philosophy, from Farabi and Ibn Sina to the figures of the contemporary era. Suhravardi, a mystic who was also a scholar of Ibn Sina's philosophy in his youth, a new philosophical perspective created that was based on enlightened knowledge and combined between the rational training of the mind and inner cultivation. Sohrvardi himself was fully aware of the importance of this combination between rational knowledge and mystical experience and placed the mystics alongside the philosophers of Masha as the forgers of categories and stages that It led to the emergence of the categories and stages of "the enlightened sage" which was the ideal of the Ishraqi doctrine.During the Safavid era, with the establishment of the Isfahan school in the 10th/16th century, the connection between philosophy and mysticism became almost a given for most philosophers, and the experience of truth through action and reasoning became almost inseparable from the philosophical discussion about the Prophet of Truth. And therefore, the connection between the reality of existence and the concept of existence in Islamic metaphysics of this period became very important. In India too, where Islamic philosophy flourished especially during the Mughal period, the same close connection between mysticism and philosophy can be seen among many main figures.In recent times, the influence and influence of Western thought has distanced many people in the Islamic world from both Sufism and traditional Islamic philosophy, but to the extent that this philosophy, which is rooted in a tradition that is twelve centuries old, remains, the relationship between Mysticism and philosophical thinking also remain