Abstracts - Journal معرفت ادیان Journal Article

com Nastaran Habibi-Khiavi / Associate Professor of the Department of Religions and Mysticism, University of Tehran Received: 2019/04/13 - Accepted: 2019/09/14 Abstract One of man’s theoretical reactions to the thirst for immortality is the “belief in the afterlife” whose most prominent manifestation is represented by religious literature. Table of Contents A Comparative Study of the Hierarchy of Existence in Islamic Mysticism and Buddhist Mysticism / Ja’far Ahmadi 7 Criticisms of Shikand-gumanig Vizar (the Report on the Dispelling of Doubts) against Muʿtazila Solution to the Problem of Evil and Divine Justice and the Judgment on It / Khadijeh Rahmati / Enshaallah Rahmati / Mohammad Reza Adli 29 A Comparative Study of the Spiritual Attributes of the Holy Spirit and Phoenix (Simurgh) / Fazeleh Aashna / Mohammad Amir Abidi-Nia / Bahman Noz’hat 45 Salvation and Repentance from the Church Fathers’ Viewpoint with Emphasis on the Views of John of Damascus / Zahra Beheshti Omasalan-Olya / Leila Hooshangi / Hojatollah Javani 63 Analysis of the Semantic Levels of the Prescriptive Fragment 4Q184 of the Dead Sea Scrolls / Ghorban Elmi / Seyedeh Souzan Anjam-Rouz / Mojtaba Zarvani 79 Man’s Eschatology according to Mahabharata and theEpistle of Arda Viraf / Sajjad Dehghan-Zadeh / Simin Yari / Nastaran Habibi-Khiavi 101 Abstract / Translator: Saeed Nadi 124 In the Name of Allah Proprietor: Imam Khomeini Educational and Research Institute Director: Sayyid Akbar Husseini Editor in Chief: Mohammad Ali Shomali Executive Manager&Voting page: Reza safari Editorial Board: ( Sosan Alerasoul: Professor، of Karaj Islamic Azad University ( Aliarshad Riyahi: Associate professor، Esfahan University ( Ahmadhusein Sharifi: Associate professor، IKI.