"...the Imagination (or love, or sympathy, or any other sentiment) induces knowledge, and knowledge of an 'object' which is proper to it..."
Henry Corbin (1903-1978) was a scholar, philosopher and theologian. He was a champion of the transformative power of the Imagination and of the transcendent reality of the individual in a world threatened by totalitarianisms of all kinds. One of the 20th century’s most prolific scholars of Islamic mysticism, Corbin was Professor of Islam & Islamic Philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the University of Teheran. He was a major figure at the Eranos Conferences in Switzerland. He introduced the concept of the mundus imaginalis into contemporary thought. His work has provided a foundation for archetypal psychology as developed by James Hillman and influenced countless poets and artists worldwide. But Corbin’s central project was to provide a framework for understanding the unity of the religions of the Book: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. His great work Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn ‘Arabi is a classic initiatory text of visionary spirituality that transcends the tragic divisions among the three great monotheisms. Corbin’s life was devoted to the struggle to free the religious imagination from fundamentalisms of every kind. His work marks a watershed in our understanding of the religions of the West and makes a profound contribution to the study of the place of the imagination in human life.

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Friday, November 20, 2009

5e JOURNEE HENRY CORBIN





5e JOURNEE HENRY CORBIN
Les religions abrahamiques et l’eschatologie
Le samedi 19 décembre 2009
à l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris
salle Dusanne
Matinée
Président de séance : Leili Anvar-Chenderoff (INALCO)
9h 30 : Natale SPINETO (Université de Turin),
« Fin des temps et vie après la mort – Modèles d’eschatologie dans les religions ».
10 h 30 : Serge MARGEL (Université de Lausanne),
« Le témoignage, ou la vision eschatologique du martyr dans les religions du Livre »
11 h 30 : Christian JAMBET (Lycée Jules Ferry) :
« L’eschatologie abrahamique du vrai fidèle dans le Commentaire du Verset de la Lumière de Mullâ Sadrâ ».
Après-midi
Président de séance : Christian Jambet
14 h 30 : Jean-Pierre LAURANT (EPHE),
« Quelques dérives eschatologiques chez les occultistes français du XIXe siècle »
15 h 30 : Mojane MEMBRADO (INALCO / CNRS)
« L’eschatologie chez les Ahl-e Haqq »

Un déjeuner pour les orateurs et anciens orateurs aura lieu au restaurant « Le Mauzac », Rue de l’Abbé de l’Epée.
Un cocktail sera offert à tous les membres de l’Association à l’Hôtel Claude Bernard de 17h30 à 20h

Cotisation annuelle 15€ à adresser à Daniel Gastambide, Président de l’Association des Amis de Henry et Stella Corbin, 7 Rue Nicolas Houël, 75005 Paris


DOUBLE-FOLIO FROM THE HAFTAWRANG (SEVEN THRONES) BY JALLIL (D. 1492): THE MIRAJ OF THE PROPHET (F. 275A) 1556-1565 Safavid period  Probably Mashad, Khurasan, Iran  Purchase F1946.12.275 Freer & Sackler Galleries.
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