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Cheetham's books have helped spark a renewed interest in the work of this important, creative religious thinker.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Henry Corbin (1903-1978) was professor of Islamic religion at the Sorbonne in Paris and director of the department of Iranic studies at the Institut Franco-Iranien in Teheran. His wide-ranging work includes the first translations of Heidegger into French, studies in Swedenborg and Boehme, writings on the Grail and angelology, and definitive translations of Persian Islamic and Sufi texts. He introduced such seminal terms as \"the imaginal realm\" and \"theophany\" into Western thought, and his use of the Shi'ite idea of \u003ci\u003eta'wil\u003c\/i\u003e or \"spiritual interpretation\" influenced psychologist James Hillman and the literary critic Harold Bloom. His books were read by a broad range of poets including Charles Olson and Robert Duncan, and his impact on American poetry, says Cheetham, has yet to be fully appreciated. His published titles in English include \u003ci\u003eCreative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi, Avicenna and the Visionary Recital\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Man of Light in Iranian Sufism.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As the religions of the Book place the divine Word at the center of creation, the importance of hermaneutics, the theory and practice of interpretation, cannot be overstated. In the theology and spirituality of Henry Corbin, the mystical heart of this tradition is to be found in the creative, active imagination; the alchemy of spiritual development is best understood as a story of the soul's search for the Lost Speech. Cheetham eloquently demonstrates Corbin's view that the living interpretation of texts, whether divine or human-or, indeed, of the world itself seen as the Text of Creation-is the primary task of spiritual life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In his first three books on Corbin, Cheetham explores different aspects of Corbin's work, but has saved for this book his final analysis of what Corbin meant by the Arabic term \u003ci\u003eta'wil\u003c\/i\u003e-perhaps the most important concept in his entire \u003ci\u003eoeuvre\u003c\/i\u003e. \"Any consideration of how Corbin's ideas were adapted by others has to begin with a clear idea of what Corbin himself intended,\" writes Cheetham; \"his own intellectual and spiritual cosmos is already highly complex and eclectic and a knowledge of his particular philosophical project is crucial for understanding the range and implications of his work.\" Cheetham lays out the implications of \u003ci\u003eta'wil\u003c\/i\u003e as well as the use of language as integral part of any artistic or spiritual practice, with the view that the creative imagination is a fundamentally linguistic phenomenon for the Abrahamic religions, and, as Corbin tells us, prayer is the supreme form of creative imagination.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49758419910929,"sku":"CIN1583944559G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50028236046609,"sku":"GOR010365045","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50535586267409,"sku":"GOR009930007","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51504129540369,"sku":"NIN9781583944554","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1583944559.jpg?v=1750895502"},{"product_id":"imaginal-love-book-tom-cheetham-9780882140322","title":"Imaginal Love","description":"Corbin's work on the role of imagination in the religions and its fundamental place in human life has had a lasting and wide-ranging influence on contemporary poetry and the humanities. 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They will also be engaged by a politically useful understanding of the religion of Islam generally, of mystical and negative theology, of monotheism, of the philosophy of imagination, of language and the textures of textuality, and of the nature of reading and thinking. The World Turned Inside Out will inform current interpretations of the politics of terrorism, its wars and the wars against it. In short, there exists here a shaking of the foundations of human perspectives that comes to nothing short of a radical revisioning of all attempts to make sense of the life and meaning of being in the world. A remarkable creative synthesis of the genius of Henry Corbin, the silent precursor of archetypal psychology. Tom Cheetham gives the gift of a metaphysics of interiority balancing pervasive, destructive, suffocating, spectator consciousness.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50029916094737,"sku":"GOR008642226","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50172719464721,"sku":"CIN1882670248G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53190843072785,"sku":"GOR010017708","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1882670248.jpg?v=1751123595"},{"product_id":"green-man-earth-angel-book-tom-cheetham-9780791462706","title":"Green Man, Earth Angel","description":"Green Man, Earth Angel explores the central role of imagination for understanding the place of humans in the cosmos. 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