Conceptualizations of ruh ‘spirit/soul’ and jesm ‘body’ in Persian: A Sufi perspective

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Unifying the body, mind and culture 1
4. Part 1: The mind and the body
5. Different bodies, different minds: The bodyspecificity of language and thought 9
6. Body and mind in Euskara: Contrasting dialogic and monologic subjectivities 19
7. The body in anatomy: Looking at “head” for the mind-body link in Chinese 53
8. Part II: Cognition and Perception
9. Perceptual landscapes from the perspective of cultures and genres 77
10. The power of the senses and the role of culture in metaphor and language 109
11. Vision and conceptualization in ancient Egyptian art 135
12. One man’s cheese is another man’s music: Synaesthesia and the bridging of cultural differences in the language of sensory perception 169
13. Part III: Imagination and (e)motion
14. Embodied emotions in Medieval English language and visual arts 195
15. Moving across metaphorical spaces over developmental time 221
16. Conceptualizations of ruh ‘spirit/soul’ and jesm ‘body’ in Persian: A Sufi perspective 251
17. Borobudur and Chartres: Religious spaces as performative real-space blends 265
18. Postscript to Sensuous Cognition: The language of the senses 293
19. Subject index 301