New Perspectives on Henry Corbin
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This collection brings together scholars from various fields to explore the work, life, and legacy of Henry Corbin (1903–1978), a towering figure in the modern study of Islamic esoteric spirituality. A valuable resource for students and researchers alike, it highlights Corbin's unique contributions not only to Islamic philosophy and mysticism, but also to Neoplatonism, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, musical and literary theory, film criticism, political thought, and comparative religion.
Hadi Fakhoury is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
This collection brings together scholars from various fields to explore the work, life, and legacy of Henry Corbin (1903–1978), a towering figure in the modern study of Islamic esoteric spirituality. A valuable resource for students and researchers alike, it highlights Corbin's unique contributions not only to Islamic philosophy and mysticism, but also to Neoplatonism, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, musical and literary theory, film criticism, political thought, and comparative religion.
The first edited collection on Henry Corbin in English Offers a comprehensive collection of the latest academic scholarship on Corbin Covers a vast array of topics illustrating Corbin’s wide relevance and legacy
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“We have long known that Henry Corbin was one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, but he is not always easy to follow. This book brings together a variety of experts to provide a perfect introduction to his work, and to help us understand the nature and significance of his contributions to modern Western thought on spirituality, Neoplatonism, and Islam.” (Mark Sedgwick, Professor of Arab and Islamic History, University of Aarhus)
“Henry Corbin is due for an intellectual and spiritual renaissance. What this new collection of essays shows is that such a reassessment points to a philosopher on a quest, a comparativist who was convinced that the gnosis of mystical experience and philosophy enlighten one another. Here is the historian of religions at work in the texts and at wonder of the religious experience, not just here, not just there, but from Plato to Persia.” (Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of “How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else”)
“This superb collection of wide-ranging essays on Henry Corbin is unprecedented in English and may serve to introduce his life and work. His utterly unique vision of a post-Islamic, ecumenical, liberal theology fits comfortably into no category. His greatest works have served as initiatory texts, and some of his most ardent readers have been poets, artists and musicians. Corbin’s immense opus is a primary source for everyone engaged in the perennial struggle for the freedom of the individual imagination across cultures and against all the forces and ideologies that perennially threaten to stifle them.”(Tom Cheetham, author of “Imaginal Love: The Meanings of Imagination in Henry Corbin and James Hillman”)
“Henry Corbin was not only a major scholar of Islamic thought and especially philosophy but also a philosopher himself, a fact that he demonstrated amply during the twenty years when he and I taught an advanced course together on Islamic philosophy at Tehran University. His works remain as pertinent today as when he wrote them.” (Seyyed Hossein Nasr, author of “Islamic Philosophy from Its Origin to the Present: Philosophy in the Land of Prophecy”)
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