"...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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Saturday, January 29, 2011

Shi‘i Trends and Dynamics in Modern Times - Now Available

Bibliotheque Iranienne -72
Shi‘i Trends and Dynamics in Modern Times (XVIIIth-XXth centuries) Courants et dynamiques chiites à l´époque moderne
(XVIIIe-XXe siècles) - Denis Hermann et Sabrina Mervin
(HERE - scroll to the bottom of the page)
ISBN 978-2-909961-48-4
co-édition OIB/IFRI 2010
Souvent dépeints comme une période de déclin de la civilisation islamique, les 18e et 19e siècles furent, tout au contraire, une phase de d’effervescence fructueuse pour les doctrines chiites. Ce volume vise à rendre compte du dynamisme intellectuel et religieux qui vit le développement des courants akhbâri et osuli, puis la primauté de ce dernier, ainsi que la naissance de la shaykhiyya et le succès populaire du soufisme confrérique. Les contributions rassemblées s’articulent en trois grandes parties, qui envisagent ces développements, les débats qu’ils suscitèrent et le contexte sociopolitique où ils s’inscrivirent. Les faits marquants qui traversèrent l’histoire de la pensée philosophique et mystique au 19e siècle font l’objet de la première partie de l’ouvrage. La deuxième partie se focalise sur les discussions et les nouvelles élaborations en matière de droit islamique chiite, au 19e siècle et au début du 20e siècle. Débats doctrinaux et théories politiques sont repris et approfondis dans la troisième partie, notamment dans le cadre du mouvement constitutionnaliste.

This contains Todd Lawson's very fine and useful essay "Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsāʾī and the World of Images." Shi‘i Trends and Dynamics in Modern Times (XVIIIth–XXth centuries). Ed. Denis Hermann and Sabrina Mervin (Beirut: Orient-Institut Beirut, 2010). Pp. 19–31.

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