The Voyage and the Messenger: Iran and Philosophy

The Voyage and the Messenger: Iran and Philosophy

Islamic philosophy
Religions
Philosophy -- Iran
Sufism

This work, incorporating previously unpublished interviews and articles, retraces the quest of Henry Corbin into the imaginal realm of the unseen real, the domains of angels and numinous beings. A study of religious philosophy, an exploration of visionary faith, these pages offer a superb meditation on the great themes of Perso-Islamic mysticism - the Sufi theory of knowledge, the voyage within the soul, le rituel de la coupe - and an illuminating glimpse into the philosophic universes of Sohravardi, Ibn Arabi, and Molla Sarda Shirazi.

Henry Corbin

translated by Joseph Rowe

Foreword / Jacob Needleman -- Preface / Stella Corbin -- Introduction / Christopher Bamford -- Iranian Studies and Comparative Religion. The Growth of Comparative Religious Science in the Nineteenth Century. Difficulties of Terminology. Towards a Hierology. Iranian Studies and Hierology -- Iranian Studies and Philosophy. The Term "Iranology" Difficulties of the Term "Arab" Iran in Western Philosophy. Philosophers in Iran -- Problem and Method in Religious History -- A Theory of Visionary Knowledge -- The Theme of the Voyage and the Messenger. The Transition from Theoretical Teaching to Real Event of the Soul. The Theme of the Spiritual Voyage in Avicenna and 'Attar. The Theme of the Spiritual Voyage in Suhrawardi.

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