The Mystical Cities in the Islamic Thought

Year 2004, Volume: 6 Issue: 18, - , 01.06.2004

İsmail Erdoğan

Abstract

In Islamic thought, we have generally found the idea of mystical cities in the mythology philosophy and mysticism. There is not a consensus on those cities in this world or in another world. But general thought is that, those cities are in another world or they are imagination cities. Those cities are Hurkalya, Câburs and Cabulk. For the mystics those cities are mystical makams. For the some Shia thinkers, there has been the Gaib Imam in those cities

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Mystical cities, Hurkalya, Cabulk, Câburs, Beytü’l-Izze and Beytü’l-Ma’mur

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