آلية المماثلة في التأويل العرفاني الإسماعيلي

Abstract EN

in Ismaili mystical interpretation is not just a tool for understanding the coranic text, but goes beyond that to become, with the theorists of the Fatimid state, a mechanism to determine an overall vision of the universe and life in all its manifestations, starting with the creation of the supreme beings to the simplest ones.

The knowledge of the mystical truth is based on the scale of analogy or conformity, which is, as Al-Karmani describes it, the “balance” appropriate to the system of truth, the Ismaili approach to interpretation is directed towards a basic goal, which is to establish the argument for the Imamate through a set of similarities that they establish between the forms of existence, and then they turn with this correspondence To their virtuous city, in which the imam -at the top of the hierarchy of ranks- is a teacher for those below him.