MYSTICAL ASPECTS IN POLITICAL THOUGHT OF SEYYED JAAFAR KASHFI

In terms of time, Iranian Mystic Seyyed Jaafar Kashfi belongs to the era that is known as the end of the political thought era, from the perspective of Decline theory. However, He is one of the great thinkers of the Qajar era who in his two books entitled “Tohfat al-Muluk” and “Mizan al-Muluk” presented his political thought on the basis of mystical way. The main question in this research is what kind of political thought is presented by Kashfi, and how far has been impacted this kind of political thought in Qajar era. The main hypothesis of this article is that Kashfi was one of the main representatives of Mystical-Political thought exactly during that era is called the Decline of political thought in Iran.