EPISODE · Dec 6, 2025 · 15 MIN
Ep.13. Ibn ʿArabī & Henry Corbin: Imagination (khayal) | Ibn Arabi Podcast
from Immortal Echoes, Mortal Words · host Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani
Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki Music: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi In this episode of our Ibn ʿArabī Podcast, I explore Henry Corbin’s interpretation of Ibn ʿArabī’s conception of imagination (al-khayāl) as the very organ of divine manifestation and ontological mediation. Ibn ʿArabī’s metaphysics of imagination bridges Essence and existence, the divine and the human, revealing how every act of imagination is an act of creation—a theophany (tajallī) through which Being discloses itself. This teaching is central to sufism and Islamic metaphysics. My latest book: Sarayān: The Real’s Permeation: Ibn ʿArabi on the Divine Presence in the Cosmos with Neoplatonic Insights (available in both digital and print formats): https://immortalechoes.org/pages/our-press Visit our Academy of Mystic Poetics and Philosophy, and check out our courses: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/courses If you enjoy the content and wish to support our work, your generosity helps us continue creating: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/donations Watch more from our Ibn Arabi Podcast: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqkz7b_183HG0qkYvbH9dyTAWnncKZGLp&si=sCNGBNjB7RRRIZat My recent publications: https://istanbul.academia.edu/RasoulRahbariGhazani Guiding Questions: What does it mean that imagination “creates being”? How does this reshape our understanding of creativity and divine manifestation? In what way can human imagination reflect the Divine Imagination that Corbin describes? How does the concept of barzakh or “isthmus” help us understand the relationship between spirit and body, unseen and seen? #IbnArabi #Sufism #IslamicPhilosophy #Metaphysics #Mysticism
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Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki Music: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi In this episode of our Ibn ʿArabī Podcast, I explore Henry Corbin’s interpretation of Ibn ʿArabī’s conception of imagination (al-khayāl) as the very organ of divine manifestation and ontological mediation. Ibn ʿArabī’s metaphysics of imagination bridges Essence and existence, the divine and the human, revealing how every act of imagination is an act of creation—a theophany (tajallī) through which Being discloses itself. This teaching is central to sufism and Islamic metaphysics. My latest book: Sarayān: The Real’s Permeation: Ibn ʿArabi on the Divine Presence in the Cosmos with Neoplatonic Insights (available in both digital and print formats): https://immortalechoes.org/pages/our-press Visit our Academy of Mystic Poetics and Philosophy, and check out our courses: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/courses If you enjoy the content and wish to support our work, your generosity helps us continue creating: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/donations Watch more from our Ibn Arabi Podcast: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqkz7b_183HG0qkYvbH9dyTAWnncKZGLp&si=sCNGBNjB7RRRIZat My recent publications: https://istanbul.academia.edu/RasoulRahbariGhazani Guiding Questions: What does it mean that imagination “creates being”? How does this reshape our understanding of creativity and divine manifestation? In what way can human imagination reflect the Divine Imagination that Corbin describes? How does the concept of barzakh or “isthmus” help us understand the relationship between spirit and body, unseen and seen? #IbnArabi #Sufism #IslamicPhilosophy #Metaphysics #Mysticism
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