Science of the Soul in Ibn Sīnā’s Pointers and Reminders: A Philological Study

‎Contents
‎Acknowledgments
‎Chronology of Ibn Sīnā’s Works
‎Notes on Sources, Presentation, Transliteration, and Translation
‎Introduction
	‎1. Ibn Sīnā and Mysticism
		‎1.1. Defining (Ibn Sīnā’s) Sufism and Mysticism
		‎1.2. A Terminological Clarification
	‎2. Metaphysics of the Rational Soul
	‎3. The Uniqueness of the Pointers
	‎4. Editions and Translations of the Pointers and Reminders
		‎4.1. Editions
		‎4.2. Translations
	‎5. Objectives, Methodology, and Structure
	‎6. Overview of Ibn Sīnā’s Internal Faculties
‎Chapter 1. The Soul’s Independence from the Body
	‎1. The Rational Soul’s Independence from the Body
	‎2. Intellect and Intelligible Do Not Unite
	‎3. God’s Knowledge of Particulars
	‎4. Evil and the Order of the Good
	‎5. Ibn Sīnā, Optimist
‎Chapter 2. The Soul’s Ultimate Destination
	‎1. Internal Pleasures Are Superior to External Pleasures
	‎2. The Nature of Pleasure and Pain
	‎3. Awareness of Pleasure and Pain
	‎4. Pleasure and Pain in the Afterlife
	‎5. Ranking Beings in Terms of Joy
	‎6. Returning to the Final Destination
‎Chapter 3. The Soul’s Intellectual Development
	‎1. Differentiating Knowers from Non-knowers
	‎2. The “Stages” (darajāt) of the Human Intellect in Relation to Secondary Intelligibles
	‎3. Knowledge (ʿirfān) and the Highest Stages
	‎4. Characteristics of the Knower
	‎5. A New Metaphor for a Familiar Epistemology
‎Chapter 4. The Soul, Science, and the Supernatural
	‎1. Marvelous Feats
	‎2. Imaginative Knowledge
		‎2.1. A Brief Excursus on Imaginative Knowledge
		‎2.2. Empirical, Logical, and Philosophical Bases for Engravings from Above
		‎2.3. Distracting the Faculties of the Soul
		‎2.4. Making Contact with the Supernal Realm
		‎2.5. Imagination, Imitation, and Interpretation
		‎2.6. Ibn Sīnā’s Empiricism
		‎2.7. Conclusion to the Excursus on Imaginative Knowledge
	‎3. Motive Power
	‎4. Naturalizing the Supernatural
‎Chapter 5. Returning to Ibn Sīnā’s Mysticism/Sufism
	‎1. Non-standard Epistemology
	‎2. Union with the Divine
	‎3. The Impossibility of Union for Ibn Sīnā
‎Conclusion
	‎1. If Not Sufism or Mysticism, Then What?
	‎2. Concluding Remarks
‎Appendix 1. Comparison between Pointers and Ibn Sīnā’s Summae
‎Appendix 2. Comparison between Pointers and Ibn Sīnā’s Monographs
‎Bibliography
‎Index