The Hermeneutics of Religious Imagination and Human Nature in Kant& Ibn al-'Arabī Open Access
Abdel Meguid, Ahmed El-Sayed (2011)
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Abstract
The dissertation investigates and synthesizes under-explored dimensions of Immanuel Kant’s and Muhyī ad-Dīn ibn al-‘Arabī’s (d.1240) philosophy of religion. In contrast with mainstream Kantian scholarship that reduces the role of God in his thought to its moral use, this work argues that the idea of God plays a decisive role in his definition of the ‘human being.’ Building on recent scholarship on the problem of defining the ‘human’ in the Critique of Judgment, it argues that only the idea of God allows imagination to define the ‘human-being’ by hermeneutically connecting the realm of rational ideas with that of spatial-temporal experience. The dissertation then shows that Ibn al-‘Arabī, generally viewed as a Muslim mystic tout court, held parallel philosophical views of the ‘human-being’ and the faculty of imagination. It then demonstrates that Ibn al-‘Arabī overcame salient problems that Kant faced by outlining the implications of this philosophical view for concrete religious experience and putting forward a more elaborate account of the hermeneutical dimension and uses of the idea of God.
Table of Contents
Introduction…………………………………………………………………………1
Part I: The human-divine relationship in light of Kant’s theory of aesthetic judgment and imagination
Chapter 1…………………………………………………………………………….21
Chapter 2…………………………………………………………………………….50
Chapter 3…………………………………………………………………………….71
Chapter 4…………………………………………………………………………….89
Chapter 5…………………………………………………………………………...110
Chapter 6…………………………………………………………………………...130
Chapter 7…………………………………………………………………………...150
Part II: Second Part: Ibn al-‘Arabī’s conception of imagination and the humandivine relationship: A phenomenological interpretation of his theory of prophecy and divine names
Chapter 8…………………………………………………………………………...167
Chapter 9…………………………………………………………………………...190
Chapter 10………………………………………………………………………….212
Chapter 11………………………………………………………………………….234
Conclusion………………………………………………………………………….253
Bibliography……………………………………………………………………….261
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