Avicenna and the Tales of Immortality

Abstract

The Muslim and Greek philosophers dealt with the subject of the soul meaning man, his origin and his destiny. Ibn Sina was particularly interested in the immortality of man after his death through the psychological resurrection. He dealt with it in his letters and books, meaning the immortality of man in the afterlife, in heaven or hell. To achieve this, he employed narrative storytelling, so he wrote "The Epistle of Hayy ibn Yaqzan", "The Epistle of the Bird" and "The Story of Salaman and Absal", which are symbolic stories that allowed him to express what he wanted, through diversifying the characters and events, according to the historical circumstances he went through.