Sheikh Safi Al-Din Ardabili Int’l Forum Planned
Planned in line with the statements of the Supreme Leader about Sheikh Safi Al-Din Ardabili, the forum aims to introduce the thoughts and works of the scholar and his influence on Islamic and Shia mysticism.
Representatives from 4 countries have been invited to attend the forum to be hosted by the Organization of Documents and National Library of the country.
The call for the forum was announced last year and more than 40 papers have been sent to the secretariat of the program so far.
The selected works, 4 of which from abroad including a paper by a lecturer of SOAS University of London, will be presented at specialized sessions of the forum.
“Irfan-e Thaqalayn” by Seyyed Salman Taqawi and “Manifestation of Mystical Art in the Mausoleum of Sheikh Safi AL-Din Ardabili” by Hassan Yusufi Ardabili and Malake Golmaghami Zadeh will be the two books to be unveiled at the forum.
The Center for Studies and Researches about Sheikh Safi Al-Din Ardabili in Tehran and London, governorate of Ardabil and Esfahan provinces, Muhaqiq Ardabili University, Organization of Cultural Heritage and Tourism, Encyclopedia Foundation in Ardabil, Museum, Library and the Documents Center of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, the representative office of the Supreme Leader in Ardabil Province, the Office of Islamic Culture and Guidance in the province will cooperate in the organization of the program.
Sheikh Safi Al-Din Ishaq Ardabili (of Ardabil) (1252–1334), was the Kurdish eponym of the Safavid dynasty, and the spiritual heir and son in law of the great Sufi Murshid (Grand Master) Sheikh Zahed Gilani, of Lahijan in Gilan province in northern Iran.
Sheikh Safi al-Din inherited Sheikh Zahed Gilani's Sufi order, the "Zahediyeh", which he later transformed into his own, the "Safaviyya".
Over the following 170 years, the Safaviyya Order gained political and military power, finally culminating in the foundation of the Safavid dynasty.
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