Henry Corbin, Islam and the Imagination - Oxford, England, October 2010

A day-long program, Saturday, October 9, 2010, offered by the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education and sponsored by the Temenos Academy.

Full details and registration here. (Or see the new flyer below)

Morning Lectures -

The Prophetic Tradition & The Battle for the Soul of the World: An Introduction to the Spiritual Vision of Henry Corbin
DR TOM CHEETHAM
The Role of the Grail in Henry Corbin’s Thought
DR JOHN CAREY - University of Cork and Fellow of the Temenos Academy

Afternoon Lectures 

In Search of Lost Speech: Nostalgia, Eros and the Angel Out Ahead
DR TOM CHEETHAM
Correspondences Between English Romantic and Persian Sufi Poets
DR LEONARD LEWISOHN - University of Exeter and Fellow of the Temenos Academy
with readings by TOM DURHAM


TOM CHEETHAM is the author of three books on the implications of Henry Corbin’s work for contemporary spirituality: The World Turned Inside Out, Green Man–Earth Angel and After Prophecy. He is Adjunct Professor at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine.
JOHN CAREY is a lecturer in the Department of Early and Medieval Irish, University College Cork and editor of the Temenos Academy Review. His most recent book is Ireland and the Grail.
LEONARD LEWISOHN is Lecturer in Persian and Iran Heritage Foundation Fellow in Classical Persian and Sufi Literature at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, where he currently teaches Persian language, Persian poetry in translation, Sufism and Islamic spirituality.
TOM DURHAM is an actor with a particular interest in the performance of challenging poetry. He can be heard regularly as a reader on Radio 3.

The day will be chaired by PROF. GREVEL LINDOP, formerly Professor of Romantic and Early Victorian Studies at Manchester University, and a Fellow of the Temenos Academy.

Henry Corbin at Oxford