Theoretical Capabilities of Islamic Mysticism in Civilization-making

The impacts of mystical theoretical foundations extend to various levels of human life, even to the social and civilization level. One of the fundamental dimensions of civilization is the theoretical and intellectual foundations, which itself have a connection with the mystical theoretical foundations. While possessing political, cultural, social and artistic capacities, Islamic mysticism has unique theoretical capacities that can play a role in the theoretical foundations of civilization. Analyzing the mystics woks, this paper studies the role of mystical teachings in the theoretical dimension of civilization. This paper also analyzes the theoretical foundations of the Islamic mysticism regarding the theoretical philosophy of the history of civilization, the ontological status of unity and its civilizational role, systemic attitude to civilization, the connection of manifest and non-manifest in Islamic civilization, the position of man and his true destination and the importance of intuition in epistemology.