By Henry Corbin
"Henry Corbin's works are the easiest advisor to the visionary tradition.... Corbin, like Scholem and Jonas, is remembered as a student of genius. He was once uniquely built not just to get well Iranian Sufism for the West, but additionally to guard the important Western traditions of esoteric spirituality."--From the advent via Harold BloomIbn 'Arabi (1165-1240) was once one of many nice mystics of all time. in the course of the richness of his own event and the positive energy of his mind, he made a distinct contribution to Shi'ite Sufism. during this e-book, which incorporates a strong new preface via Harold Bloom, Henry Corbin brings us to the very middle of this flow with a penetrating research of Ibn 'Arabi's existence and doctrines.Corbin starts off with a type of religious topography of the 12th century, emphasizing the variations among exoteric and esoteric kinds of Islam. He additionally relates Islamic mysticism to mystical notion within the West. the rest of the booklet is dedicated to 2 complementary essays: on "Sympathy and Theosophy" and "Creative mind's eye and inventive Prayer." a bit of notes and appendices comprises unique translations of various Su fi treatises.Harold Bloom's preface hyperlinks Sufi mysticism with Shakespeare's visionary dramas and excessive tragedies, reminiscent of The Tempest and Hamlet. those works, he writes, intermix the empirical international with a transcendent aspect. Bloom indicates us that this Shakespearean cosmos is comparable to Corbin's "Imaginal Realm" of the Sufis, where of soul or souls.
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Ibn 'Arabi himselfgivesan explanationof these eventsin the pagesthat will here be analyzed,describingthe effectsof the creative energy producedby the concenfiationof the heart (hinna). We shallalsorecallthis episodein studying Ibn 'Arabi's "method of theophanicprayer," the creative pmyer that becomesdialogue,creativebecauseit is at once God's prayer and man's prayer. This wasthe exactterm, "mother ofher father" (umm abtha),which the Prophet gave to his daughter rs. FufibaLll, sfi. $ z. TheCurueand Symbols Fatimat al-Zahra, Fatima the Radiant.
Rammadl Trust your master. ,,Then Ibn'Arabi knew whom he had met. Later in Tunis, on a wann night offull moon, lbn rArabi went to rest in the cabin ofa boat Introduction anchored in the port. A feeling of uneasinessawakened him. He went to the edge of the vessel while the crew was still plunged in sleep. And he saw coming toward him, dry-shod over the waters, someonewho approachedand talked with him for a moment and then quickly withdrew into a grotto in the mountainside,some miles distant. The next day in Tunis a holy man unknown to him asked him: "Well, what happened last night with Khidrl'26 And now comesthe far more important episodeof his mystic investiture, which occurred in the year 6ot f tgo4.
And indeed Khi{r's pre-eminenceover Moses ceasesto be a paradox only if we consider it in this light; otherwise, Moses lemains one of the six pre-eminent prophets 64 18, On this importantpoint, seeLouis Massigngn'sstudy "flie et Khadiito, en Islam," Elie le profhitc, ll, ton rdle transhistorigue, t09-90. 66 Introduttion charged with revealing a sharl'a, while Khi{r is merely one of the hundred and eighty thousandzabls,mentioned in our traditions. True, his earthly genealogy raises a problem which defies historical analysis.