Creative Imagination in Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi

Creative Imagination in Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi

A penetrating analysis of the life and doctrines of the Spanish-born Arab theologian. A penetrating analysis of the life and doctrines of the Spanish-born Arab theologian. Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

An analysis of the life and doctrines of the Spanish-born Arab theologian.

Henry Corbin

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press

Translated from the French by Ralph Manheim

Series: Bollingen Series XCI.;

1. Between Andalusia and Iran: A Brief Spiritual Topography -- 2. The Curve and Symbols of Ibn `Arabi's Life -- At Averroes' Funeral -- The Pilgrim to the Orient -- The Disciple of Khidr -- His Maturity and the Completion of His Work -- 3. The Situation of Esoterism -- PART ONE. SYMPATHY AND THEOPATHY -- Chapter I. Divine Passion and Compassion -- 1. The Prayer of the Heliotrope -- 2. The "Pathetic God" -- 3. Of Unio Mystica as Unto Sympathetica -- Chapter II. Sophiology and Devotio Sympathetica -- 1. The Sophianic Poem of a Fedele d'amore -- 2. The Dialectic of Love -- 3. The Creative Feminine -- PART TWO. CREATIVE IMAGINATION AND CREATIVE PRAYER -- Prologue -- Chapter III. The Creation as Theophany -- 1. The Creative Imagination as Theophany, or the "God from Whom All Being Is Created" -- 2. The God Manifested by the Theophanic Imagination -- 3. The "God Created in the Faiths" -- 4. The Recurrence of Creation -- 5. The Twofold Dimension of Beings --

Chapter IV. Theophanic Imagination and Creativity of the Heart -- 1. The Field of the Imagination -- 2. The Heart as a Subtile Organ -- 3. The Science of the Heart -- Chapter V. Man's Prayer and God's Prayer -- 1. The Method of Theophanic Prayer -- 2. Homologations -- 3. The Secret of the Divine Responses -- Chapter VI. The "Form of God" -- 1. The Hadith of the Vision -- 2. Around the Mystic Ka'aba.

Introduction -- pt. 1. Sympathy and theopathy. Divine passion and compassion ; Sophiology and Devotio sympathetica -- pt. 2. Creative imagination and creative prayer. The creation as theophany ; Theophanic imagination and creativity of the heart ; Man's prayer and God's prayer ; The "form of God".

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