what is imagination and image? how is a mental picture formed? how does the product of imagination appear as an artistic or literary from? what are the factors that cause man to prefer the world of imagination over reality, making it, his/her choice and becoming an artist or a writer? these were the questions that made jean-paul sartre busy between 1920 to 1940, and after that he was thinking a...

rational explanation of the doctrine of imamat (spiritual leadership of the shi`ites) is one of the most important and efficient instruments that can prepare the ground for extension and propagation of this view in all over the world. so, in this article i want to study one of the first rational explanation of this view in islamic world which proposed by al- farabi. in the world of islam, farab...