tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383427572957027459.post1722399966090506143..comments2024-01-12T10:42:23.401-05:00Comments on The Legacy of Henry Corbin: Corbin & GuénonTom Cheethamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985087642903754121noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383427572957027459.post-1049530658298511812009-06-25T17:15:25.535-04:002009-06-25T17:15:25.535-04:00I think that there are some significant difference...I think that there are some significant differences between Guénon and Corbin, but also many similarities. We should also note that there are differences between the traditionalists themselves, and even between various academics in Islamic Studies. A number of traditionalists after Guénon have written about and defended western esoterism, such as Frithjof Schuon, Huston Smith and James Custinger. Also worth noting is Corbin's collaboration with one of the leading traditionalist scholars Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Corbin may not have been a traditionalist, but he comes closer to that perspective than any scholar in his field that I have read who does not identify himself as such.<br /><br />Guénon also states, which could have easily been written by Corbin or Suhrawardi:<br /><br />"...for it is all too clear that to the extent that a man "Westernizes" himself, whatever may be his race or country, to that extent he ceases to be an Easterner spiritually and intellectually, that is to say from the one point of view that really holds any interest. This is not a simple question of geography, unless that word be understood in a sense other than its modern one, for there is also a symbolic geography..."<br />(R. Guénon, The Reign of Quantity & the Signs of the Times, p. 7)<br /><br />See also the forthcoming text by Patrick Laude "An Inner Islam: Insights in Massignon, Corbin, Guénon, and Schuon":<br />http://explore.georgetown.edu/publications/34745/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com