Le shi'isme imamite : histoire, doctrines, sagesse

Jeudi 5 avril, 17h-19h
Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi (EPHE)
Christian Jambet (EPHE)

Le shi'isme imamite : histoire, doctrines, sagesse 

Dans le cadre du séminaire de Denis Hermann (CNRS),
 Fabrizio Speziale (Paris 3 – CNRS), Julien Thorez (CNRS),
Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien 

Université Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris 3, 

Centre Censier, 13 rue de Santeuil, 

salle Las Vergnas, 3e ét., 75005 Paris

IISMM - Bulletin Avril 2012

IISMM - Bulletin Avril 2012

Corbin & Poetry - Another in the Series

Though not Corbin, strictly speaking. But for many of those interested in the hermeneutics of texts, poetic and/or sacred, it seems to me that there is enough of interest here to make the mind reel. It certainly has mine spinning.

jacket2 has a review by Elizabeth Robinson, a response and an interview with Bettridge about his book:

Reading as Belief: Language Writing, Poetics, Faith
by Joel Bettridge

Palgrave Macmillan 2009, 204 pages, $80, ISBN 0230619428

It's worth noting that among other things, Bettridge is co-editor of Ronald Johnson: Life and Works.

From the review: 

"In his discussion, Bettridge proceeds by setting up an extended (and sometimes problematic) analogy between the Reformed Christianity of John Calvin and Jonathan Edwards and Language writing." (!!)

 ...

"Perhaps one of the most exciting elements of Reading as Belief is Bettridge’s insistence on the primacy of the imagination. When definitive knowledge is acknowledged as impossible, Bettridge argues, imagination is a necessary resource that permits us to work with tenuousness:

a poem or prayer, when pregnant with the imagination, allow us to grant
ourselves the roving honesty, expressive tensions, and intelligence we need
to read our constantly shifting ideas, dispositions, and experiences."

READ THE ENTIRE PIECE

 

Review of Nasr 2012

Book Review: Perennialist interpretation of modern Islam
By Muhammad Khan
In The Muslim News

Islam in the Modern World: Challenged by the West, Threatened by Fundamentalism, Keeping Faith with Tradition. By Seyyed Hossein Nasr. New York: HarperCollins. pp472. 2012. PB. $21.99

The author of this book is an Iranian-American academic. He is a University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University and a leading Muslim scholar who has published extensively on different aspects of Islam from a Traditionalist perspective. This book was first published in 2010 and has since been updated and expanded for the benefit of the readers. What is Traditionalism? READ MORE

"In the appendices, the author has provided a detailed but not necessarily a critical assessment of the life and works of Louis Massignon, a French Catholic Islamicist; Henry Corbin, who was also a leading French Islamicist; Rene Guenon, the founder of Perennialism and a French mystical writer; Frithjof Schuon, a Swiss Sufi and prolific writer; Titus Burckhardt, who was also a Swiss Sufi and artist, and Martin Lings, a British Sufi and prominent writer"

Homayun Sakhi: The Art of the Afghan Rubâb

Philosophie et Islam - Christian Jambet Audio Files

Philosophie et Islam 1/4 : Sohravardî, philosophe de la Lumière

Philosophie et Islam 2/4 : Molla-Sadra Shirazi, du Réel aux réalités.

Philosophie et Islam 3/4 : Avicenne, penseur de l'âme.

Philosophie et Islam 4/4 : L' Islam, entre tradition et modernité. 

Thanks to Daniel Proulx for these links.

Corbin on Heidegger - Audio File

From the interview with P. Nemo.
Thanks to Daniel Proulx for finding this.

The Life of Rumi

The Life of Rumi in Rare Islamic Manuscript Paintings from the 1590s

by Maria Popova

Lightning'd Press

"In the flowering of the Apocalypse, understood not in a metaphoric nor in a fundamentalist sense, but instead in a true sense, underscoring the breakthrough of Reality in every smallest increment of moment as the ego is absented, can we understand what poetry has always been: mysticism in practice." - from the Introduction to the inaugural issue of Lightning'd Press.

Arabic Literature in English Translation

Founded in 1998 Banipal is an independent literary magazine 

publishing contemporary authors and poets 

from all over the Arab world in English translation.

The Red Monastery Project

In conjunction with the exhibition Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition (on view at the MET March 14 through July 8, 2012), art historian Elizabeth Bolman introduces the Red Monastery project.

Kayhan Kalhor & Behrouz Jamali - March 17 Freer Gallery

Kayhan Kalhor, kamanche; Behrouz Jamali, tombak

Date Saturday, March 17, 2012, 7:30 pm Categories Performances Co-sponsor Made possible through support from the Thaw Charitable Trust. Venue Freer Gallery Event Location Meyer Auditorium Cost Free tickets required. Related Events Pre-concert gallery tour, Arts of the Islamic World, 6:45 pm Details One of the great masters of Persian music—and a three-time Grammy nominee—Kayhan Kalhor returns to the Freer for a rare intimate performance on the traditional Iranian kamanche (spike fiddle). Kalhor is a longtime performer and composer with Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble and is cofounder of the Masters of Persian Music, Dastan, and Ghazal (with Shujaat Khan and Swapan Chaudhuri). His many other collaborations have ranged from work with Brooklyn Rider and the New York Philharmonic to the soundtrack for Francis Ford Copolla’s Youth Without Youth. He is accompanied by Behrouz Jamali on tombak (drum).

Pluralism & Paganism

European Identity Politics and the Memory of Paganism – a conference panel in Amsterdam, 20 April 2012

The identity of Europe has typically been built on the two pillars of Christianity and Enlightenment secularism. Consequently, religious alternatives are always positioned in systems of pluralism where “Christianity” and the “secular society” are seen as hegemonic. Other religious identities (e.g. Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist) are thus typically seen as additions to the main stream of European culture, rather than integral parts of the development of European culture itself. This monolithic view of European identity is however increasingly being rejected by scholars: not even in the Middle Ages was “Christianity” a monolithic entity, nor was it the only religious identity available. READ MORE

Also of interest:
Radical Platonism in Byzantium : Illumination and Utopia in Gemistos Plethon
Niketas Siniossoglou, University of Cambridge

Music of Central Asia, continued...

La crisis espiritual en Occidente, Gilbert Durand

La crisis espiritual en Occidente

Gilbert Durand

Edición de Alain Verjart. Siruela. 

Madrid, 2011. 404 páginas, 26 euros.

El gran especialista en simbolismo Gilbert Durand (1921), autor de una obra ya clásica -y muy influyente- sobre las estructuras antropológicas de lo imaginario, decidió, tras un encuentro con el estudioso de la espiritualidad sufí Henry Corbin y una intensa participación, desde finales de la cuarta década del pasado siglo, en los “Encuentros de Eranos”, profundizar en el estudio de los fenómenos religiosos desde la perspectiva, no demasiado visitada por entonces, de una antropología del símbolo y el mito...  READ MORE