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imaginal world: a standalone construct

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imaginalworld1 CONSTRUCTImaginal worldCORBIN · ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY

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Islamic philosophy

Corbin's term for an intermediate world of images between the sensory and the intellectual, drawn from Ibn 'Arabi and Suhrawardi.

In Islamic philosophy, imaginal world refers to Corbin's term for an intermediate world of images between the sensory and the intellectual, drawn from Ibn 'Arabi and Suhrawardi. This meaning comes from Corbin (1958/1970) in Creative imagination in the Sūfism of Ibn 'Arabī.[1]

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  1. Corbin, H. (1970). Creative imagination in the Sūfism of Ibn 'Arabī (R. Manheim, Trans.). Routledge & Kegan Paul. (Original work published 1958) ISBN 9780710029560

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