"Recent studies of Islamic mysticism have unearthed and developed the central role of "imagination" in Sufism and mystical philosophy. This has been done in conscious contrast to the perceived "degradation of the image" in Western thought. Imagination is said to be both a cosmological and a noetic realm in the midst of a hierarchy of universes that mark, at the same time, different stations on the initiatory path of human beings on their way to God. Into these well laid-out plans of worlds and images, my paper introduces a component that is found very rarely in these studies and occurs, rather, in Islamic hagiographic texts about the lives of Saints or the "Friends of God" (awliya'). This component is the motive of "following," or obedience to the Prophet (sequela prophetae). In one particular account of a meeting of two "Friends of God," reference is made to the incapacity of imagination to contain-i.e. to imagine-one of them. The remedy for this incapacity is, strangely enough, expressed by a word (imtathala) which itself contains the element of imagination and means "obedience." The sequela prophetae appears, thus, not as an addition to imagination, something like its guide, but as a way of imagining that is unthought."
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2008
توصيف ظاهري
343-355
عنوان
Religion and the Arts
شماره جلد
12/1
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1568-5292
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
Art History
اصطلاح موضوعی
Comparative Religion & Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
ESCHATOLOGY
اصطلاح موضوعی
General
اصطلاح موضوعی
History
اصطلاح موضوعی
IMAGINATION
اصطلاح موضوعی
OBEDIENCE
اصطلاح موضوعی
PROPHETS
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
RUMI
اصطلاح موضوعی
SUFISM
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )