"...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.Search The Legacy of Henry Corbin: Over 800 Posts
Friday, January 31, 2014
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Eranos: An Alternative Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century
Hakl, Hans Thomas.
Sheffield: Equinox, 2013
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Advance Notice of an Important Publication
ERANOS—ITS MAGICAL PAST AND ALLURING FUTURE:
THE SPIRIT OF A WONDROUS PLACE
Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture, Vol. 92
Publication Date: Winter 2014
Editor-in-Chief, Nancy Cater, J.D., Ph.D.
Guest Editor: Riccardo Bernardini, Scientific Secretary, Eranos Foundation
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
On Platonic Theology
The Rebirth of Platonic Theology: Proceedings of the Conference Held at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti) and the Istitutio Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento (Florence, 26-27 April 2007) for J. B. Michael Allen, ed. James Hankins and Fabrizio Meroi (Firenze: Olschki, 2013)
The Rebirth of Platonic Theology: Proceedings of the Conference Held at the Harvard University Center for I... by Tom Cheetham
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Conférences publiques 2014
"Liberté et contrainte dans les sociétés musulmanes"
Christian Jambet, directeur d’études, EPHE
La liberté spirituelle en islam et l’interprétation de “Pas de contrainte en religion”
"Liberté et contrainte dans les sociétés musulmanes"
Christian Jambet, directeur d’études, EPHE
La liberté spirituelle en islam et l’interprétation de “Pas de contrainte en religion”
Mardi 7 janvier 2014
18h-20h
Amphithéâtre François Furet, 105 bd Raspail, 75006 Paris (M° Saint-Placide ou Notre-Dame-des-champs)
Entrée libre
Dans l’esprit et la lettre des théologies majoritaires en islam, la liberté de l’homme est inséparable de la Loi et du décret divin. On montrera que les formes de la liberté consistent non à s’abstraire de l’ordre divin intégral, mais à se rendre, en quelque façon, semblable à Celui qui l’instaure, par une démarche intérieure et spirituelle. On prendra l’exemple de l’interprétation de la phrase fameuse, présente dans le Coran (2, 256), “Pas de contrainte en religion”, par le grand philosophe Mullâ Sadrâ, et l’on s’interrogera sur le sens, pour le destin de l’islam, de la distinction entre une liberté intérieure, perfection de l’âme, et une liberté extérieure à la Loi, jugée illicite ou illusoire.
Modérateur : Bernard Heyberger, directeur d’études EHESS, directeur de l’IISMM-EHESS

Saturday, November 30, 2013
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
The Habit of Mysticism
Ibn Tufayl, Avicenna & Hayy Ibn Yaqzan discussed in
Getting Used to God: Augustinian and
Avicennian Approaches to the Habit of
Mysticism
Daniel J. Gillis
Monday, November 18, 2013
‘In the Karbala of his heart, it may happen that the powers of the carnal soul kill the intellect and the angelic companions who assist it, and uproot all traces of them from man’s heart. Then indeed there is accomplished in each one of us, word for word, the ta’wīl of the tragedy of Karbala.” - Henry Corbin, (Temple and Contemplation, 46) See the essay in Isma'ili Gnosis HERE.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
James Hillman Celebration in Dallas
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Corbin & the Imagination in Utah - November 15 & 16
Reality at White Heat: Towards a Concrete Imagination
Friday Evening Lecture: "Your Autonomy is a Fiction: Henry Corbin On Being Human"
Saturday Lecture/Workshop: "Imaginal Love"
Friday Evening Lecture: "Your Autonomy is a Fiction: Henry Corbin On Being Human"
Saturday Lecture/Workshop: "Imaginal Love"
Friday and Saturday, November 15 & 16, 2013
with
Tom Cheetham
for
with
Tom Cheetham
for
The Friday night lecture will be available as a teleconference HERE.
Monday, October 28, 2013
Jung & Corbin in Paris
« LE LIVRE ROUGE DE JUNG, HENRY CORBIN ET
LES VISIONS DE L’ISLAM IRANIEN »
Samedi 23 novembre 2013 de 14h à 18h
Forum 104
104, rue de Vaugirard - 75006 PARIS
LES VISIONS DE L’ISLAM IRANIEN »
Samedi 23 novembre 2013 de 14h à 18h
Forum 104
104, rue de Vaugirard - 75006 PARIS
Avec le soutien de la SFPA et le partenariat des associations « Autour de Marie-Louise von Franz » et « Groupe d’Etudes C.G. Jung ».
Jean-François Alizon, théologien, pédagogue, musicien et président du Centre Européen d’Etudes Jungiennes de Strasbourg mettra en parallèle le Livre Rouge de Jung avec les visions initiatiques d’Avicenne et de Sohrawardi, telles qu’on peut les trouver dans les livres d’Henry Corbin Avicenne et le récit visionnaire et L’Archange Empourpré. JF Alizon analysera les étonnantes résonnances et similitudes des parcours intérieurs et aussi le même recours à l’imagination active au 11ème siècle comme au 20ème siècle. L’exposé sera accompagné de lectures qui feront revivre les récits iraniens et les dialogues du Livre Rouge, avec projection d’images de ce même Livre Rouge. La musique de flûtes traversières renaissance ponctuera aussi l’après midi.
Tarif adhérent proposé aux Amis de Henry et Stella Corbin : 25€
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Monday, October 7, 2013
Corbin & Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
Many thanks to Muinuddin Smith for drawing my attention to this letter of considerable interest:
A letter of March, 1962
by
HENRY CORBIN
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
On Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj
Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj (Persian, 10th century A.D.): from The Divan
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