
Cyclical Time & Ismaili Gnosis
Corbin(Author)
Kegan Paul (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 4. January 1983
Book
Hardback
222 pages
978-0-7103-0047-8 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
505 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7103-0047-8 (9780710300478)
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Person
Henry Corbin
Content
1. CYCLICAL TIME IN MAZDAISM AND ISMAILISM, 2. DIVINE EPIPHANY AND SPIRITUAL BIRTH IN ISMAILIAN GNOSIS, 3.FROM THE GNOSIS OF ANTIQUITY TO ISMAILI GNOSIS