Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Note on Tratlsliteration and Dates -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Part One: Introduction -- I. Avicenna and Islamic Allegory -- 2. Avicenna: Courtier, Physician, Philosopher -- Part Two: Allegory and Philosophy -- 3. The Structure and Representation of the Cosmos -- 4. Avicenna's Theory of the Soul -- 5. Avicenna's Theory of Knowledge -- Part Three: The Mi'râj' Nama -- 6. Translation of the Mi'râj Nama -- Part Four: Interpretation and Allegory -- 7. The Interpretation and Function of Allegory -- 8. Allegory and Allegoresis -- Appendices -- Appendix A. On Allegory -- Appendix B. On the Attribution of the Mi'râj Nâma -- Appendix C. The Manuscripts -- Appendix D. The Text of Avicenna's Version of the Mi'raj -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Map: Iran in the time of Avicenlia.