Alone with the Alone - Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi

Name: Alone with the Alone - Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi
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ISBN: 9780691058344

ISBN-10: 0691058342

ISBN-13: 9780691058344

Edition: 1998 (Revised)

Authors: Henry Corbin, Ralph Manheim

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"Henry Corbin's works are the best guide to the visionary tradition.... Corbin, like Scholem and Jonas, is remembered as a scholar of genius. He was uniquely equipped not only to recover Iranian Sufism for the West, but also to defend the principal Western traditions of esoteric spirituality."--From the introduction by Harold Bloom Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240) was one of the great mystics of all time. Through the richness of his personal experience and the constructive power of his intellect, he made a unique contribution to Shi'ite Sufism. In this book, which features a powerful new preface by Harold Bloom, Henry Corbin brings us to the very core of this movement with a penetrating analysis of…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/22/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



List of Plates


Preface


Introduction


Between Andalusia and Iran: A Brief Spiritual Topography


The Curve and Symbols of Ibn 'Arabi's Life


At Averroes' Funeral


The Pilgrim to the Orient


The Disciple of Khidr


His Maturity and the Completion of His Work


The Situation of Esoterism


Divine Passion and Compassion


The Prayer of the Heliotrope


The "Pathetic God"


Of Unio Mystica as Unio Sympathetica


Sophiology and Devotio Sympathetica


The Sophianic Poem of a Fedele d'amore


The Dialectic of Love


The Creative Feminine


Prologue


The Creation as Theophany


The Creative Imagination as Theophany, or the "God from Whom All Being Is Created"


The God Manifested by the Theophanic Imagination


The "God Created in the Faiths"


The Recurrence of Creation


The Twofold Dimension of Beings


Theophanic Imagination and Creativity of the Heart


The Field of the Imagination


The Heart as a Subtile Organ


The Science of the Heart


Man's Prayer and God's Prayer


The Method of Theophanic Prayer


Homologations


The Secret of the Divine Responses


The "Form of God"


The Hadith of the Vision


Around the Mystic Ka'aba


Epilogue


Notes and Appendices


List of Works Cited


Index