Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• mohammad fanai ahkevari
• ali karimian seyghalani

Abstract

The most important question ever posed in the realm of Art Studies investigates the relationship between aesthetic principles and artistic discourse. Taking note of the fact that schools base their definition of aesthetic principles on their intellectual frameworks, the authors of the present paper seek to extract and organize the aesthetic principles which are based on the Islamic Mysticism. This paper addresses mystical aesthetic-epistemological principles since the existence and appreciation of beauty constitute the main foundations of aesthetics. Although this paper is not intended to compare the aesthetic principles of the Islamic Mysticism and contemporary art, it sheds light on the fact that the Islamic Mysticism owns some fundamental principles in aesthetics which could attract the attention of the researchers working in the Philosophy of Beauty and contemporary art.

Keywords

• principles
• Mysticism
• aesthetics
• epistemological principles
• beauty of God