Academia.edu Excerpt: The Ontology of Imagination Henry Corbin and others have demonstrated the importance of imagination for Sufism and Islamic philosophy.6 Ibn al-‘Arabi insists that it is impossible to gain a true understanding of the Islamic revelation without perceiving the role of imagination within the cosmos. “He who does not know (ya’rif) the ontological status (martaba) of imagination (al-khayäl) has…
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