Reflection on Linking Ring of Mysticism and Religious Sociology

Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism

Shahram  Basity ¹ (Assistant Professor and Faculty Member, Social Science Dept., Payam-e-Nour University, Tehran, Iran,)
Monireh  Moradinasab ² (Instructor and Faculty Member, Social Science Dept., Payam-e-Nour University, Tehran, Iran)
Rangin Negar  Karamzadeh ³ (Instructor and Faculty Member, Social Science Dept., Payam-e-Nour University, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2021-12-18 Accepted : 2021-12-18 Published : 2021-12-22

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Abstract :

Religion is an integral part of society. Everybody has orders that are interpreted and analyzed according to different levels and categories of society. The society is in harmony with religion and seeks most of its needs from religious teachings. In this respect, sociology behaves in harmony with religion, that is, it does not consider sociological theories to be separate from religion. On the other hand, in the history of Iran (and most lands), we have a phenomenon called "mysticism". Although at first glance, it may seem that mysticism or Sufism has gone against the wishes of society and has anarchist theories; But by analyzing all mystical views in all categories of history, we can refute this claim and say that: mysticism (Sufism), religion and sociology have moved in the same direction.The findings of the present study, which was done by descriptive-analytical method using the tool of "content analysis", show that mystics such as Sanai Ghaznavi, Attar Neyshabouri, Rumi and their like-minded people have mystical theories that They can be studied under sociology.