Reason Unbound: On Spiritual Practice in Islamic Peripatetic Philosophy -- Reason Unbound: On Spiritual Practice in Islamic Peripatetic Philosophy -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Islamic Philosophy and the Crisis of Modern Rationalism -- Chapter 1: Beyond Orientalism and Academic Rationalism: A Critique of the Standard Readings of Islamic Philosophy -- 1.1. Philosophy as Practice of Spiritual Exercises -- 1.2. Standard Readings of Islamic Philosophy -- Chapter 2: To the Things Themselves: Corbin and Heidegger on Phenomenological Access -- 2.1. Phenomenology According to Henry Corbin -- 2.2. Heidegger's Phenomenology -- 2.3. Two Contemporary Approaches to Heidegger's Phenomenology -- 2.4. Back to Corbin -- Chapter 3: From the Things Themselves to Prophecy: Philosophical Cultivation in Islamic Peripateticism -- 3.1. The Ethical Foundations of Islamic Philosophy -- 3.2. Alfarabi's Appropriation of Islamic Ethics -- 3.3. Alfarabi's Philosophical Appropriation of Islamic Prophetology -- 3.4. The Reception of the Notion of Active Intellect in the Islamic Philosophical Tradition -- 3.5. Alfarabi on Religion and Politics -- 3.6. Avicenna on Philosophical Felicity -- 3.7. Avicenna on Intellectual Prophecy -- Chapter 4: Disciplining the Imagination: Intellect, Imagination, and Prophecy -- 4.1. Prophetic Imagination -- 4.2. The Beautiful and the Sublime -- 4.3. After Kant -- 4.4. Avicenna on the Poetic Cultivation of Imagination -- Chapter 5: The Theologian's Dream: Imagination and Intellectual Heresy -- 5.1. Ghazali on Dreams -- 5.2. Ghazali and Avicenna on the Interpretation of Prophetic Symbols -- 5.3. Ghazali's Charge of Heresy Against Islamic Peripatetics and Averroes' Reply -- Chapter 6: On Human Finitude, Conscience, and Exemplarity: A Comparison between Islamic Peripateticism and Heideggerian Phenomenology.

6.1. Being-Towards-Beyond-Death: On the Immortality of the Soul in Islamic Peripateticism -- 6.2. Conscience and the Active Intellect -- 6.3. Paradigms of Emulation: Divine Exemplars and Existential Heroes -- Conclusion: The Importance of Islamic Peripateticism for Modern Philosophy in the West and Its Impact on Later Islamic Philosophy -- 1. Islamic Peripateticism and the Predicament of Modern Western Philosophy -- 2. Peripateticism in Later Islamic Philosophy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.