Alone With the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi - Brossura

Corbin, Henry

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ISBN 10: 0691058342 ISBN 13: 9780691058344

Casa editrice: Bollingen Foundation, 1998

Riassunto

"Henry Corbin's works are the best guide to the visionary tradition.... Corbin, like Scholem and Jonas, is remembered as a scholar of genius. He was uniquely equipped not only to recover Iranian Sufism for the West, but also to defend the principal Western traditions of esoteric spirituality."--From the introduction by Harold Bloom

Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240) was one of the great mystics of all time. Through the richness of his personal experience and the constructive power of his intellect, he made a unique contribution to Shi'ite Sufism. In this book, which features a powerful new preface by Harold Bloom, Henry Corbin brings us to the very core of this movement with a penetrating analysis of Ibn 'Arabi's life and doctrines.

Corbin begins with a kind of spiritual topography of the twelfth century, emphasizing the differences between exoteric and esoteric forms of Islam. He also relates Islamic mysticism to mystical thought in the West. The remainder of the book is devoted to two complementary essays: on "Sympathy and Theosophy" and "Creative Imagination and Creative Prayer." A section of notes and appendices includes original translations of numerous Su fi treatises.

Harold Bloom's preface links Sufi mysticism with Shakespeare's visionary dramas and high tragedies, such as The Tempest and Hamlet. These works, he writes, intermix the empirical world with a transcendent element. Bloom shows us that this Shakespearean cosmos is analogous to Corbin's "Imaginal Realm" of the Sufis, the place of soul or souls.

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Henry Corbin was Professor of Islamic Religion at the Sorbonne and was the leading authority in the West on Iranian-Islamic thought.

Contenuti:

	List of Plates
	Preface
	Introduction
	Between Andalusia and Iran: A Brief Spiritual Topography	3
	The Curve and Symbols of Ibn 'Arabi's Life	38
	At Averroes' Funeral	38
	The Pilgrim to the Orient	46
	The Disciple of Khidr	53
	His Maturity and the Completion of His Work	68
	The Situation of Esoterism	77
	Divine Passion and Compassion	105
	The Prayer of the Heliotrope	105
	The "Pathetic God"	112
	Of Unio Mystica as Unio Sympathetica	120
	Sophiology and Devotio Sympathetica	136
	The Sophianic Poem of a Fedele d'amore	136
	The Dialectic of Love	145
	The Creative Feminine	157
	Prologue	179
	The Creation as Theophany	184
	The Creative Imagination as Theophany, or the "God from Whom All Being Is Created"	184
	The God Manifested by the Theophanic Imagination	190
	The "God Created in the Faiths"	195
	The Recurrence of Creation	200
	The Twofold Dimension of Beings	207
	Theophanic Imagination and Creativity of the Heart	216
	The Field of the Imagination	216
	The Heart as a Subtile Organ	221
	The Science of the Heart	237
	Man's Prayer and God's Prayer	246
	The Method of Theophanic Prayer	246
	Homologations	257
	The Secret of the Divine Responses	262
	The "Form of God"	272
	The Hadith of the Vision	272
	Around the Mystic Ka'aba	277
	Epilogue	282
	Notes and Appendices	285
	List of Works Cited	391
	Index	399

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• Editore: Bollingen Foundation
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0691058342
• ISBN 13: 9780691058344
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 398