Bøger af Nadia Maftouni

"Math and Myth" is a comprehensive work book for ESL courses included a variety of practices: pronunciation exercises, spelling exercises, as well writing practices.

Suhrawardi has repeated attempts to allegorize philosophical issues as well as intelligible happiness. In his allegorical treatises, some wayfarer has journeys to the heaven spheres and the ten Separate Intellects, pursuing intelligible happiness. Suhrawardi as the founder of the School of Illumination provided an original Platonic criticism of the dominant Avicennian Peripateticism of the time. However, Suhrawardi's allegorical issues are deemed Avicennian all the way down the line. This fact requires us to point out his other face: Avicennian Suhrawardi.

The current book is assigned to the allegorical treatises of three major Muslim sages: Avicenna, Ibn Tufail, and Suhrawardi, whom I call philartists. But, what does philartist mean? This idea goes to the heart of Farabi¿s philosophy. To Farabi, the ultimate utopian end is to achieve intelligible happiness. Given that the public, based on their nature and general habits, are unable to perceive intelligible truths, the path to intelligible happiness must be presented to them via the imagination. The utopian artist who brings intelligible happiness to people's mind through their imagination might be called a philartist.