Iranian Persian Language and Literature Promotion Society Research on Mystical Literature HTTPS://JP 1 2 2007 06 22 Artistic Imagination and Its Realization in Attar's Works Artistic Imagination and Its Realization in Attar's Works 1 30 16255 FA T. Pournamdarian Professor ,Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies 0000-0001-8834-5174 Journal Article 2016 06 14 In this paper, after a qvick reference to Coleridge's view on imagination, an attempt is made to have a new look at this concept. Three faculties were believed by philosophers and physicians to exist in mind: 1) fancy which is the store of perceived images 2) memory and 3) imagination which is on the one hand related to the memory and on the hand to the fancy.In th next part of the peper, different predicatcs are explained. Three stories -- "Elahi- Nameh", "Mantegh al-Tayr", "Mosibat- Nameh" and some stories about some Sufi learned men narrated by Attar in "Tazkere-Al Oulia" are analysed and interpreted. In this paper, after a qvick reference to Coleridge's view on imagination, an attempt is made to have a new look at this concept. Three faculties were believed by philosophers and physicians to exist in mind: 1) fancy which is the store of perceived images 2) memory and 3) imagination which is on the one hand related to the memory and on the hand to the fancy.In th next part of the peper, different predicatcs are explained. Three stories -- "Elahi- Nameh", "Mantegh al-Tayr", "Mosibat- Nameh" and some stories about some Sufi learned men narrated by Attar in "Tazkere-Al Oulia" are analysed and interpreted. https://jpll.ui.ac.ir/article_16255_39cf4d7f76f6bb11805e310b0a247a60.pdf