Abstract
The article provides a religious and philosophical analysis of the concept of road within the framework of Islamic doctrine. Relying on dogmatic sources (the Qur’an and Hadith), as well as on the three dimensions and characteristics of the concept of road – conceptual, figurative and axyolog-ical ones, the author reveals the content of this phenomenon. The research has shown the presence of spiritual and physical understanding of road or path in the Islamic creed. At the conceptual level and in the spiritual sense, path is interpreted as a vector of spiritual development through religion, as a model of life or a way of life. In its physical meaning, road or path is mentioned when describing significant Quranic events, and as an element of cataphatic practice in Islam. Both these are basic meanings in the axiological and figurative dimensions of the concept of road. In the first case, the phenomenon of road is actualized in some of the practice-transforming components of the Islamic creed. In the second case, it is derived from the religious and philosophical analysis of one of the key works of Jalaladdin Rumi – Poem about the hidden meaning (Masnaviyi ma'navi). Conceptually, fig-urative representations of road/path in this work are also analyzed in the physical, spiritual and eschatological sense.
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