Ibn Arabi – Imagination [Part 1]

Ibn Arabi asserts that the entire world of existence is imagination within imagination. His assertion departs from the fact that what we apprehend is not real. In other words, what we, as conscious beings, apprehend is an imagination just like our dream. Just as we perceive ourselves as imagination, we perceive the entire cosmos as imagination within imagination. All this is called "unbounded imagination" (al-khayal al-mutlaq) by Ibn Arabi, that is, imagination as a cosmic phenomenon as a whole.

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The references:
Binyamin Abrahamov, Ibn Arabi's Fusus al-Hikam: An Annotated Translation of the Spectacles of Wisdom (London: Routledge, 2015).

Hans Wehr, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, (ed.) J. Milton Cowan (Itacha: Spoken Language Services, 1976).

Henry Corbin, Alone with Alone: The Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1997).

Ibn Arabi, Fusus al-Hikam, (ann.) Abu al-'Ala Afifi (Beirut: Dār al-Kitāb al-'Arabī, 1946).

Ibn Arabi, The Glasses of Wisdom, trans. R. W. J. Austin (New York: Paulist, 1980).

Kautsar Azhari Noer, Ibn Arabi: Wahdat al-Wujud dalam Perdebatan (Jakarta: Paramadina, 1995).

Toshihiko Izutsu, Sufism and Taoism: A Comparative Study of Key Philosophical Concepts (California: University of California Press, 1993).

Seyyed Hossein Nasr (ed.), The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary (New York: HarperOne, 2015).

William C. Chittick, The Sufi Path to Knowledge: The Metaphysics of Ibn al-Arabi's Imagination (New York: SUNY Press, 1989).

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