My new essay The Test of the Veil, with considerable reference to Henry Corbin, is now published in Sophia: The Journal of Traditional Studies. The piece is also available online here."In his profound and beautiful book on the great Islamic mystic Ibn 'Arabi, Henry Corbin recounts an incident from the Master's life that illuminates the question at the heart of the soul's journey. It lingers in my mind as one of the most powerful passages in all of Corbin's great opus. In Mecca in the year 1201 (A.H. 598) the mystic and poet was a guest in the home of an Iranian family originally from Isfahan..."
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