Takhyil : the imaginary in classical Arabic poetics1: Texts

Takhyil is a term from Arabic poetics denoting the evocation of images.

It has a broad spectrum of connotations throughout classical philosophical poetics and rhetoric, and it is closely linked to the Greek concept of phantasia.

This first volume (a second is on Takhyil Studies) is comprised of annotated translations of key texts on this topic from major philosophers and literary theoreticians, including "Alfarabi" (al-Farabi), "Avicenna" (Ibn Sina), "Averroes" (Ibn Rushd), and "'Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani".

In her preface, the classicist Anne Sheppard relates takhyil to Greek poetics, and in his introduction, Wolfhart Heinrichs traces the development of the term in the Arabic tradition.