STUDY OF MENTAL IMAJERY IN THE PARABLE OF THE QURAN WITH EMPHASIS ON THE FUNCTION

Morteza Afshari

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URL :   http://research.shahed.ac.ir/WSR/WebPages/Report/PaperView.aspx?PaperID=54085
Date :  2016/11/24
Publish in :    The Turkish Online Journal of Design Art and Communication


Keywords :mental image, parable, upbringing

Abstract :

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Discovering the mental images is the most important discovery of Psychology in the present century. Scientific developments have approved its influence in life and especially the role of mental imagery in improving psychological disorders in humans and even physical diseases in two recent decades. Mental imagery is the main motif of personality and human behavior. With the change of mental imagery, personality and behavior changes, and all actions, feelings, behaviors and even abilities of people form based on this image. However, it seems this was not a new discovery and Quran, the Muslim holy book and also a pictorial miracle, has offered set of images of diverse, innovative and full of different features in the form of parables that appears in each section of this holy book, which specify the importance and role of imagery parables in education, training, guidance and formation of human character. Visual Quran parables, by portraying the issues of real world and objective phenomena, have exhibited many concepts of mind and inner feelings of man for audiences that have not a manifestation in natural world; in frame of dynamic and real images that are completely related to various internal forces and the invisible forces of man to indicate the behaviors, the formation of beliefs and human personality. In this study, after useful explanation of image, parable and mental imagery, it has been attempted to present some examples of Quran parables to emphasize approach of Quran to use mental imagery to guide the audiences. The most important results obtained from this study show that audiences of Quran is impressed by their mental images such as education, environmental medicine for innate reasons.