Author
Daylamī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī Quṭb al-Dīn al- See related records as author
Publication Date
2023
Publication Place
Turnhout -
Subject
Islamic philosophy -- 17th century See related records as subject — None — None
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
546
Physical Dimensions
1 vol. (546 p.) : fac-sim., couv. ill. en coul. ; 24 cm
Library
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Library Asset ID
FRBNF47219313
Record ID
cb47219313b
Library Location
Library of the School of Advanced Studies. Religious sciences (Turnhout. Print) See all related records Library of the School of Advanced Studies. Religious sciences. Sources and documents See all related notices
Date
2023
Notes
Bibliogr. p. 511-530. Bibliographic notes. Index Arabic and Persian text preceded by the French translation, study in French The imaginal world ('alam al-mithal) is one of the major discoveries or inventions of philosophy in Islam after Averroes, a concept developed between the school of illuminative wisdom (ishraq) of Suhrawardi and the school of speculative mysticism of Ibn 'Arabi. Intermediary between the material and spiritual worlds, sensitive and intelligible, it makes it possible to account for the events of dreams, the phenomena of apparitions, the celestial ascensions attributed to sages and saints, as well as the pleasures and torments of the "minor resurrection" taking place in the grave. We owe to Qutb al-Din Ashkevari, a little-known Shi'ite philosopher of Safavid Iran (11th/17th century), the first monograph on this new world, composed in Arabic and Persian, the epistle Fanus al-khayal fi ira'at 'alam al-mithal, "the Magic Lantern showing the imaginal world", also entitled al-Risala al-mithaliyya, “The Epistle on the Imagination”. It is both a compilation bringing together varied sources on the world, bodies and imaginal events, and a personal work going against the tide of its time, aiming to show the harmony between Imamite Shi'ism, philosophy and Sufism, and calling for a quest for salvation through knowledge outside the world here below. This work contains a presentation, an unpublished translation and the first edition of the text of this epistle. It aims to reconstruct, based on the numerous sources used by Ashkevari, a general “history-geography” of the imagined world, but also to approach the work in the singularity of its doctrinal project and its Gnostic intention. Around the concept of the imaginal world, it sheds light on the deep relationships between the three currents of spiritual Islam: Imamite Shi'ism, Sufism and philosophy.
Dizi/Koleksiyon
Bibliothèque de l'École des hautes études - Sciences religieuses ; 198 Bibliothèque de l'École des hautes études - Sciences religieuses. Série Sources et documents ; 3
