Mehmet Masatoğlu

Transcendental Realities: A Study of Mokṣa and Fanāʾ in the Search for Divine Unity

Ankara Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi November 30, 2025 Mehmet Masatoğlu, Bayram Polat 1 citation

This study presents a comparative investigation of the notions of mokṣa (Liberation) in Advaita Vedānta, as interpreted by Śaṅkarācārya, and fanāʾ (Annihilation of the Self) in Sufism, as explained by Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī. The research portrays mokṣa as the ultimate realization of the individual self’s (ātman) identity with the universal absolute reality, Brahman. This state is achieved...