Cyclical Time & Ismaili Gnosis
Published on 11. January 2013
256 pages
978-1-136-13754-9 (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
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
5,70 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-136-13754-9 (9781136137549)
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Book
09/2013
1st Edition
Routledge
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Book
01/1983
1st Edition
Kegan Paul
€312.60
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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
