ʿĀlam al-mithāl, the imaginal world, is an intermediate plane of reality in which spiritual realities appear in forms and bodies are spiritualized. Suhrawardī and Ibn ʿArabī described it; Henry Corbin called it the mundus imaginalis and made it widely known.
ʿĀlam al-mithāl
The world of images: an intermediate realm between spirit and matter where spirits take form, known through imagination.
Also: imaginal world, mundus imaginalis