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Article: Psychology, eschatology, and imagination in Mulla Sadra Shirazi's commentary on the hadith of awakening.
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- Islam & Science
- Article date:
- June 22, 2007
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This article examines the most salient aspects of the commentary upon the well-known 'hadith of awakening' by the famous Safavid philosopher, Mulla Sadra Shirazi. In the context of his commentary upon this tradition, Sadra discusses the nature of imaginal forms and provides a general explanation of how death is a type of awakening. He then goes on to tackle a problem in the history of Islamic philosophy concerning the modality of rewards and punishments in the Afterlife. Here, Sadra challenges some of the eschatological views of Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi, while drawing upon both Ibn ''Arabi's teachings on imagination and his own philosophical genius to systematically ...