With a little –and excused- simplification, main and general concepts in different ideologies can be highlighted out; doctrinal themes around which other ideas revolve in a given system of thought. Throughout its historical evolution, Islamic mysticism and traditional spiritual training has both borrowed from and contributed to different traditions and schools of thoughts, yet it remained committed to certain doctrinal themes. Analogies of love and light are among those pivots which respectively played conative and cognitive roles in the spiritual training of the Muslim wayfarer. In what follows and through analysis of historical sources of Islamic mysticism, we shall consider historical origins and different dimensions of these often repeated metaphors.
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