The Impact of Religious Places on Mystical Experience and Religious Beliefs

Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism

Abdurreza Adhami ¹ , Afsaneh Edrisi ² , Mehdi Ameri ³

1 - هیأت علمی گروه علوم اجتماعی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد تهران شمال.
2 - هیأت علمی گروه علوم اجتماعی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد تهران
3 - دانشجوی دکتری جامعه شناسی فرهنگی، دانشکده علوم اجتماعی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد تهران شمال

Received: 2018-03-04 Accepted : 2018-08-04 Published : 2017-11-22

Keywords: Mystical experience, mystical components of knowledge, soul purgation, inner refinery,

Abstract :

Mystical experience is one of the most significant achievements and outcomes of spiritual purification. Such an experience and internal polishing is interconnected with the overall spiritual and physical strives of human being. In other words, it dedicates the total potentialities of mankind to gain and experience knowledge to itself. The human endeavor to gain this type of experience is versatile and diverse. One of the things for human being to understand the beautiful spiritual mood and get connected with absolute truth is resorting to holy places and internal purification of the self. Holy places and sacred mausoleums play a very important role in refining inner souls of human beings both socially and chronologically. The main purpose of this study is rereading, criticizing, and commenting on the impact and functions of pilgrimage and sacred places of Saleh Shrine in Tajrish and Shah Abdulazim Shrine, Tehran, and mystical components of inner understanding of human being.