Cyclical Time & Ismaili Gnosis (Islamic Texts and Contexts) - Softcover

Corbin, Henry

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9780415861656: Cyclical Time & Ismaili Gnosis (Islamic Texts and Contexts)
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ISBN 10: 0415861659 ISBN 13: 9780415861656
Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

First published in 1983. The volume Cyclical Time and Ismaili Gnosis brings together in English translation three of Henry Corbin's richest and most complex studies, originally presented at the Eranos conferences of 1951 and 1954 and another conference in 1956. Each of these three relatively early studies is built around a complex, highly creative 'comparison' of the phenomenological correspondences between texts (often highly fragmentary) from a vast range of spiritual traditions from late Antiquity (including Manichaenism and the sects of Sassanid Iran) - all 'gnostic' in the root Greek sense of that term favoured by Corbin, though not in the narrower historical sense used by most contemporary scholars - and comparable spiritual themes in an equally wide range of Islamic texts eventually preserved in the later Ismaili Shi'i tradition.

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Henry Corbin

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415861659
ISBN 13 
9780415861656
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
222
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