The World of Image in Islamic Philosophy: Ibn Sina, Suhrawardi, Shahrazuri and Beyond

Machine Generated Contents Note: 1. Introduction -- Questions And Answers Of This Book -- Outline Of The Book -- The Study Of Suhrawardi: And The World Of Image -- Methodology -- 2. From Ibn Sina To Suhrawardi: The Contested Idea Of Using Imagination After Death -- Ibn Sina On The Role Of Imagination In Eschatology -- The Rejection By Islamic Thinkers After Ibn Sina -- Suhrawardi's Reception And Initial Development -- 3. Suhrawardi's Recognition Of An Additional Realm -- From Celestial Bodies To Suspended Images -- From Mere Fantasies To Real Things -- From Bodily Perception To Spiritual Experience -- Sources And Issues Left Undone -- 4. Shahrazuri On Suhrawardi's Suspended Images -- Introduction To Shahrazuri's Life And Works -- Shahrazuri's Establishment Of The World Of Image -- The Main Features Of Shahrazuri's Interpretation -- 5. Suhrawardi's Lukewarm Commentators -- A Hesitant First Reception -- The Cautious Commentators From Shiraz -- An Alternative From Mulla Sadra -- 6. The Reception Of Shahrazuri's World Of Image Up Until The Present Day -- Twelfth-thirteenth Century: The Acceptance By Qutb Al-din Shirazi -- Fourteenth Century: Taftazani As An Important Transmitter -- Fifteenth-sixteenth Century: Commentators At Work -- Seventeenth Century: Safavid Intellectuals Take Notice -- Eighteenth Century: The Digestion In Shi'i Traditional Thought -- Nineteenth Century: The Balkans-to-bengal Complex At Work -- Twentieth-twenty-first Century: Continuing Interest -- Conspicuous Absence Of Ibn 'arabi And His Commentators -- 7. Conclusion. L.w.c. Van Lit. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.