| Author | Anjam Khursheed |
Title of item | Body, Mind, Soul and Spirit |
Volume | vol. 3 |
Pages | 109-182 |
| Parent publication | Singapore Bahá'í Studies Review |
| Date of this edition | 1998 |
| Language | English |
| Permission | editor and publisher |
| Posted | 2015-10-27 by Jonah Winters |
| Classified in | Published Articles |
| URL | bahai-library.org/khursheed_body_mind_soul |
| Abstract | The Bahá'í view of human nature involves an interaction between spirit, soul and body — these three elements exist both in the Semitic religions and in the Far Eastern ones; Western dualist and Eastern monist traditions are in fact all tripartite. |
| Notes | See the table of contents, editor's note, and biographical data in the complete issue, vol. 3.
See also the Wikipedia articles "Rūḥ", "Nafs" and " 'Aql " (and the related term "Qalb") for the background of these terms in Islam and Sufism. |
| Tags | Afterlife; Aql; Body; Buddhism; Christianity; Dualism (general); Flatland (Abbot); Hinduism; Human nature; Judaism; Literature; Mind; Mind, spirit, soul; Monism; Philosophy; Philosophy, Buddhist; Philosophy, Greek; Philosophy, Hindu; Philosophy, Islamic; Relativity theory; Soul; Spirit (general); Translation |
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