IMAGINAL ISLAM

<p><em>Imaginal Islam: Henry Corbin and the Metaphysics of the Imaginal World</em> is a continuation of my long-term engagement with the thought of Henry Corbin. Building upon my earlier studies of Corbin this book moves beyond introductory exposition toward a deeper exploration of the imaginal world as a fundamental dimension of Islamic metaphysics.</p><p>At the heart of this work is Corbin's recovery of <em>ʿālam al-mithāl</em>-the imaginal world that mediates between the sensible and the intelligible. Rather than treating imagination as a psychological faculty or literary metaphor this book approaches it as an ontological reality through which meaning symbol and spiritual knowledge become accessible.</p><p>Drawing on Corbin's readings of Ibn ʿArabi Suhrawardi and the Illuminationist tradition the book examines creative imagination as an organ of knowledge angelology as a metaphysics of mediation and symbolic perception as a mode of encounter rather than representation. These themes are developed not as abstract doctrines but as a coherent philosophical vision that challenges modern reductions of religion to law ideology or identity.</p><p>This volume also situates imaginal Islam within the contemporary crisis of meaning. By engaging Corbin's critique of modernity secularism and literalism the book offers an alternative orientation-one that neither rejects critical reason nor surrenders metaphysical depth. Imaginal Islam is presented here as a way of seeing grounded in Islamic philosophy yet open to universal resonance.</p><p>Written for readers already familiar with Corbin's work as well as those seeking a philosophically rigorous entry into his thought <em>Imaginal Islam</em> is intended as a reflective continuation rather than a repetition. It invites the reader to move from interpretation toward participation and from conceptual understanding toward attentiveness to the imaginal horizon itself.</p>