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Absolute Time
Ancient Gnosis
Archetypal Dimension
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Author_Henry Corbin
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Celestial Angel
Celestial Archetype
Celestial Person
comparative gnostic traditions
Divine Epiphany
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Esoteric Hierarchy
Esoteric Sodality
Eternal Time
Fatimid Period
Grand Cycle
Hypostatic Union
Ismaili Cosmogony
Ismaili Gnosis
Ismaili Theosophy
Koran Verse
late antiquity religions
Manichaean studies
Persian mysticism
phenomenological analysis
Shi'i philosophy
Spiritual Birth
spiritual hermeneutics
Supreme Divinity
Supreme Godhead
Theophanic Function
Theophanic Visions
True Prophet
Tutelary Angel
Twelver Shiism
Product details
- ISBN 9780710300485
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jan 1983
- Publisher: Kegan Paul
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
