Троичная духовная природа человека в учении шейхитов/The Shaykhi Teaching on the Tripartite Spiritual Reality of the Human Being
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Письменные памятники Востока 22 1, 98-117Abstract: The article is a study of the concept of the human being’s tripartite spiritual reality in the Shaikhi school of Shi‘i Islam. The author sets himself the task of revealing this concept as it emerges from primary sources, i.e., the works of Shaikh Ahmad Ahsa’i, the founder of the school, and those of Sayyid Kazim Rashti, his successor. The present research is based on texts (manuscripts and lithographs) in Arabic and Persian from the collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. The article is amply supplied with quotes from these texts in the author’s translation.
The article is a study of the concept of the human being’s tripartite spiritual reality in the Shaikhi school of Shi‘i Islam. The author sets himself the task of revealing this concept as it emerges from primary sources, i.e., the works of Shaikh Ahmad Ahsa’i, the founder of the school, and those of Sayyid Kazim Rashti, his successor. The present research is based on texts (manuscripts and lithographs) in Arabic and Persian from the collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. The article is amply supplied with quotes from these texts in the author’s translation.