Imagination in philosophy - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Imagination in philosophy - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Kukkonen, Taneli

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1062262
Doc. NO	:	ALei2659
Main Entry	:	Kukkonen, Taneli
Title & Author	:	Imagination in philosophy - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Kukkonen, Taneli
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,345 words)
Abstract	:	In Arabic philosophy , the imagination is customarily treated in the Aristotelian framework of psychic powers or faculties (quwan). Imagination is one of the inner senses (al-ḥawāss al-bāṭina) , those capacities that synthesise the evidence collected by the five external senses into a unitary field of perception permitting coherent belief and action. As an embodied operation performed by the sensory soul, one that is localised in the brain according to the Galenic medical tradition, imagination belongs to animals as well as humans. However, because Aristotle contended that human rational thought
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei2659.pdf