SWEDENBORG AND ESOTERIC ISLAM by Henry Corbin

SWEDENBORG AND ESOTERIC ISLAM by Henry Corbin

This volume makes two essays by Henry Corbin, the eminent French scholar of Islam, available in English for the first time. Although his primary interest was the esoteric tradition of Islam, Corbin was also a lifelong student of the theological works of Emanuel Swedenborg. The first essay, Mundus Imaginalis, or The Imaginary and the Imaginal, clarifies Corbin's use of the term he coined, mundus imaginalis, or the imaginal world. This important concept appears in both Swedenborgian and esoteric Islamic spirituality. The second piece, Comparative Spiritual Hermeneutics, compares the revelation of the internal sense of the sacred boks of two distinct religions, Christianity and Islam.

Henry Corbin (d. 1978) was professor of Islamic relgion at the Sorbonne and director of the department of Iranic studies at the Institut franco-iranien in Tehran. His wide-ranging work included the first translations of Heidegger into French, studies in Swedenbort and Boehme, writings on the Grail and angelology, and definitive translations of and commentary on Persian Islamic/Sufi texts. He introduced us to such seminal terms as the 'imaginal' realm, ta'wil, and 'theophany' into Western psychospiritual thought. His published works include Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi, Avicenna and the Visionary Recital, and The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism.

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ISBN 13	9780877851837
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Title	SWEDENBORG AND ESOTERIC ISLAM
Author	Henry Corbin
Series	Swedenborg Studies
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Swedenborg Foundation
Year published	1995-03-01
Number of pages	172
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