Abstract: The vast majority of modern Western scholars agree that, despite differences across cultures and religious traditions, "mystical experience" can be described in light of two important categories, namely "extrovertive" and "introvertive" mystical experiences. The former emphasizes the sense of ineffability and transcendence, and the latter accentuates the role of immanent sensory...
Reviewed by: Mysticism and Ethics in Islam ed. by Bilal Orfali, Atif Khalil, and Mohammed Rustom Armando Montoya Jordán (bio) Mysticism and Ethics in Islam Eds. Bilal Orfali, Atif Khalil, and Mohammed Rustom Beirut: American University of Beirut Press, 2022. 476 Pages. Is the science of ethics entirely separate from mysticism, or might mysticism be the foundation of ethics? Or, conversely,...