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This report is a summary of the results of the study entitled "Internet-Based Problem Making as a Hybrid Warfare Tool: A Case Study of Latvia" which was entrusted to the Latvian Institute of International Affairs in collaboration with Riga Stradins University by NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence; “Social Infiltration in Social Media Communications in the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict” is the title of another study conducted by a group of Polish researchers; the paper of Joseph Shaheen, a member of American public sector in NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence, entitled “Terror Network: How ISIS employs the Well-Suited Social Networks to Communicate their Messages", as well as the debates presented in the conferences of this center in 2015 are all the cases that are dealt with in this summary. The use of new communications technologies in armed conflicts has led to the creation of the concept of "hybrid warfare". This concept is the main focus of the report of NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence and encompasses a whole range of concepts such as cyber warfare, network warfare, psychological operations, etc. Publication of this report in Psychological Operations Quarterly does not signify the endorsement of its content and is only to enhance the readers’ information.

The present paper seeks to investigate the key concept of innate nature based on the ontological, anthropological and theological principles of Ibn Arabi's mysticism. From this perspective, all the realities are manifestations of the one simple being and thus, being is present in all the worlds in which we dwell, although it may not emerge with all its attributes in all of them. However, man is a reality different from all the other realities. Based on religious thinking, man is created from the image of God. Accordingly, he is able to manifest the being completely and since being is the essence of knowledge and awareness, man can experience it with all its attributes as well. This undifferentiated being and awareness, which is firmly present in all human beings, is called innate nature. The purpose of man’s creation is to actualize this undifferentiated being as much as possible. From the perspective of the author, this goal is accomplished only through servitude and complete submission to the divine will which means annihilation in the non- Truth and permanence in the Truth. This Truth is exactly the being that has manifested itself in the servant to Allah.

The author firstly pointed out to important subject of cosmology of Islam and he briefly examined that from two important reference of Islam that are Qur’an and Sonnah, and in continue he tried to know Islam’s world graph’s charts with three thinking tradition of philosophical – scientific, Gnosticism and mysticism. The author believes growth and crystallizations of Kalami’s trends are effective in non- existence of a separate tradition based on religious world-view reflections in Islam, and pointed out to influence of Greece, India and Iran in appearance of these three thinking traditions. Including the most important influential issues on firming world graph’s charts in these three thinking traditions we could pointed out to impact of cosmology of Aristotelian and Ptolemaic on Kalami and philosophical systems, the system of seven lands on Islamic Geography and neo Platonism’s trainings on Gnosticism mystical philosophy. In addition these world graph’s charts also includes interwoven designs about planetarium planets, planetarium under the moon of the four elements, the twelfth zodiac, the fourth main directions, mineral world and even human body. The author has choices due to the wide range of world graph’s charts that remained in Manuscript and only study and examine a number of charts that based on these three thinking traditions. These charts are belong or related to scholars and thinkers of both two Shi’a and Soni sects with different thinking views that from these thinkers we could point out to these people: Jaber ebn Hayyan, Akhavan al-Saffa, Abu Yaqub Sajestani, Abu Reihan Birooni, Naser Khosro, Hamedi, Hamid Alddin Kermani, Ebn Arabi, Seyed Heidar Amoli, Ibrahim Haqqi.