associating certain forms and designs in islamic arts with the promised heaven may be widely observed in the works of many historians and critics of the field. it is believed that islamic art has been derived from the imagination of the paradise as depicted in holy quran. to express this meaning in technical words it should be said that the main concept in islamic arts has been the gardens of h...

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...

This paper argues that the contemporary climate crises we see around our planet correlate with a colonial crisis of (literary) imagination. The author engages Caribbean literary scholar Sylvia Wynter and other anti-colonial scholars to trace how imagination is rooted in euro-western humanism racial capitalism governs west, stories forms frame it, whose logics continue be rehearsed across discip...