The world turned inside out: Henry Corbin and Islamic mysticism

The world turned inside out: Henry Corbin and Islamic mysticism

Corbin, Henry
Orientalists -- Biography
Mysticism -- Islam

Tom Cheetham

Woodstock, Conn. : Spring Journal Books

A brief biography of Henry Corbin -- Against the times: primordial space, primordial time. The act of presence ; The great refusal -- An oriental theosophy. Persia and Mazdaism ; The age of Islam ; Philosophy and theology -- The modes of knowing and the levels of being. Thought and being ; A hermeneutics of presence -- Coming home: the heart and face of the earth. Beyond the cosmos ; Mundus imaginalis -- The angel and individuation. The celestial twin and the metaphysics of individuation ; Disciples of Khidr -- Ta 'wil and prophetic philosophy. The key to the soul and the key to the world ; Falling into the world ; The word and the world: time, space, matter, and prophecy -- The angelic function of beings. Idols and icons ; The pathetic god ; Apophatic theology and antidote to nihilism -- A life in sympathy with being. Music and mirrors ; Rebuilding the temple -- Conclusion: A voyage into the world.

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