نظري برعالم خيال

An Ovreview of the Imaginal World(mundus imaginalis)

Paying attention to the faculty of imagination or the imaginal world is one of the distinctive features of Islamic philosophy. In the words of the prominent Islamic philosophers, the principle of the existence of the imaginal world has remained completely secure against criticisms, however, its results and consequences have been open to development, interpretation, or sometimes, modification. In contrast, in modern schools of philosophy, the principle of the existence of such a world, and naturally, the bases or concomitants of believing in it, are rejected and even denied. Generally speaking, "imagination" has achieved a psychological aspect or meaning in modern philosophy. Here, imaginal forms are considered the product of psychological powers. Nevertheless, the author believes that in spite of such a rejection, the idea of the new world, which is the product of the Utopianist writers of the Renaissance period, has been primarily developed in their imagination_ Besides, in the present world, which is engaged in a crisis of thoughts and ideas, there is a place for a second introduction of the world of imagination, particularly from the view point of phenomenologist philosophers.