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Reihe: Bollingen Series
Corbin Avicenna and the Visionary Recital
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-5906-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
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(Mythos Series)
E-Book, Englisch, 440 Seiten
Reihe: Bollingen Series
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5906-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
In this work a distinguished scholar of Islamic religion examines the mysticism and psychological thought of the great eleventh-century Persian philosopher and physician Avicenna (Ibn Sina), author of over a hundred works on theology, logic, medicine, and mathematics. Henry Corbin's discovery in an Istanbul library of the manuscript of a Persian translation of and commentary on Avicenna's Hayy ibn Yaqzan, written in Arabic, led him to an analysis of three of Avicenna's mystical "recitals." These form an initiatory cycle leading the adept along the path of spiritual progress. In Part I Corbin summarizes the great themes that show the philosophical situation of Avicennan man in the cosmos and presents translations of these three great Avicennan recitals. Part II is a complete translation, with notes, of the Persian commentary.
Originally published in 1960.
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Frontmatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. v
Preface, pg. ix
I. Avicennan Cosmos and Visionary Recital, pg. 3
II. Avicennism and Angelology, pg. 46
III. The Recital of Hayy ibn Yaqzan, pg. 123
IV. The Recital of the Bird, pg. 165
V. The Recital of Saldman and Absal, pg. 204
Epilogue; or, Avicennan Perspectives, pg. 242
Postscript. Recent Studies on Avicenna's "Oriental Philosophy", pg. 271
In the Name of God the Clement, the Merciful, pg. 281
1. Prologue, pg. 282
2. The Encounter with the Angel, pg. 283
3. The Salutation, pg. 289
4. Beginning of the Initiation: The Name and Person of the Angel, pg. 292
5. Physiognomy, pg. 295
6. The Two Ways for the Soul, pg. 297
7. The Soul's Three Evil Companions, pg. 299
8. How to Treat the Three Companions, pg. 305
9. The Conditions of the Journey, pg. 308
10. The Orient and Occident of the Universe, pg. 319
11. The Spring of Life, pg. 321
12. The Darkness About the Pole, pg. 324
13. The Occident of the World, pg. 327
14. The Clime of Terrestrial Matter, pg. 331
15. The Clime of Celestial Matter, pg. 333
16. The Celestial Spheres, pg. 336
17. Toward the Orient: The Clime of Elementary Forms and the Forms of Species, pg. 343
18. The Kingdom of the Soul, pg. 346
19. The Demons of the Soul, pg. 353
20. The Genii of the Soul, pg. 355
21. The Terrestrial Angels, pg. 357
22. Angels-Souls of the Spheres and Angels-Cherubs, pg. 362
23. The Beauty of the King Who Is Like unto None Other, pg. 372
24. Those Who Emigrate Toward the Kingdom, pg. 374
25. If "Thou Wilt, Follow Me", pg. 379
List if Works Cited, pg. 383
Index, pg. 395
