mirror
object · 6 works · 6 mentions · 14 anchored passages
the mirror · a mirror · al-mirʼāt · glass · looking-glass · mirrors · the burnished mirror · the mirror of its imagination · the mirror of the air · the polished surface
spoken of as
1 expressionThe mirror3 mentions
Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad (Arabic) · Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi (Arabic) · Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn (Arabic)
[35] (1) It may be claimed that the form in the mirror is a delimited light, and so admits of the delimiting pointing, unlike what is outside the mirror, for that is an undelimited light and refuses the delimiting pointing.
in the texts
Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi
The reflecting surface, whether the imagination that reflects meanings back as witnessed forms or the air on which words glint as the reflection of realities.
Indeed, that meaning may be reflected back into the mirror of its imagination, which is the niche of the lamps of the soul, so that it witnesses those very forms face to face, along with its witnessing of the sensible forms;
so it is as though the realities, in view of their entitative forms, were unseen sounds and those words their echo — or as though those realities were original forms and the utterances their reflection, glinting upon the mirror of the air, by reason of the intensity of the soul’s polish, and by reason of polish calling for the appearance of what is in the polished surface, in the way of forms, upo …
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
The mirror, used twice as the analogy for how the heart or the imagination receives forms rather than essences.
and the heart is in the midst of these instruments like a king and these are his troops rendering to him, or like a burnished mirror with these tools about it, so that they appear in it and it sees them, and they strike within it and it finds them.
rather what comes to be in the mirror is only the traces of these things, their likenesses and their forms.
De Rerum Natura
The reflective device (looking-glass) used throughout the passage as the primary experimental case for explaining the mechanics of the image doctrine, including depth, chirality reversal, and multiple/curved reflection.
Again, those little sides of mirrors curved
Fashioned from images of things sent out.
From mirror unto mirror;
Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad
The mirror and the form reflected in its surface, the treatise's example of imprinting by pervasion, which the annotator reinterprets as a delimited light open to the delimiting pointing as against the undelimited light outside it.
[35] (1) It may be claimed that the form in the mirror is a delimited light, and so admits of the delimiting pointing, unlike what is outside the mirror, for that is an undelimited light and refuses the delimiting pointing.
the imprinting of a thing in another, or its inhering in it, may be by way of pervasion (*sarayān*), as with the imprinting of the form in the surface of the mirror and of blackness in the body;
The purport of this discourse is that the imprinting of a thing in another, or its inhering in it, may be by way of pervasion, as with the imprinting of the form in the surface (1) of the mirror and of blackness in the body — for their imprinting is by way (2) of pervasion;
Republic
The object Socrates proposes as the quickest way to 'create' images of all things, illustrating mere appearance versus reality.
You will speedily produce the sun and all the things in the sky, and speedily the earth and yourself and the other animals and implements and plants and all the objects of which we just now spoke.
De Cultu Feminarum
A device for self-viewing, cited as an instrument of vanity
then to consult the mirror on every occasion, anxiously to inspect oneself—whereas, God being known, the will of pleasing being taken away through the occasion of luxury, all those things are refused as idle, as hostile to modesty.
if it had already been lawful for the mirror also to lie so far—would Eve, expelled from paradise, already dead, in my opinion, have coveted these things?