Imaginal Worlds: Ibn Al-'Arabi and the Problem of Religious Diversity William C. Chittick
Publisher: State University of New York Press

Section: Worlds of Imagination. Feb 19, 2014 - Nevertheless, Mulla Sadra was dedicated to the traditional forms of logical arguments that are based on premises evident to the mind rather than on beliefs which come from religious faith and tradition. Chittick, Imaginal Worlds – Ibn al-Arabi and the Problem of Religious Diversity, 2001. Apr 9, 2003 - The source for this concept is Ibn 'Arabi's al-Futuhat al-Makkiyyah (The Meccan Revelations). Nov 30, 2013 - The problem was finally solved by the Sufis—and expounded most notably by Ibn Arabi—who relied on direct spiritual experience and knowledge rooted in that experience, rather than on pure reasoning and abstract thinking. Imaginal Worlds: Ibn al-'Arabî and the Problem of Religious Diversity. Chittick, Imaginal Worlds: Ibn al-'Arabi and the Problem of Religious Diversity (Albany, NY, 1994), p. Albany: State University of America, 1994. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Furthermore, Mulla Sadra explains the afterlife of the human soul based on Ibn'Arabi's metaphysics of imagination that introduces the imaginal world (̒alam al-mithal) in between the Intellectual realm on top and the material world at the bottom. Chapter: Revelation and Poetic Imagery, pp. Jun 3, 2010 - (Ibn al-Arabi, Futuhatal Makiyyah. Apr 1, 2014 - Creative Imagination in the Sûfism of Ibn 'Arabî.