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A01=Henry Corbin
archangel
Archetypal Dimension
archetype
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Author_Henry Corbin
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Category=QRP
celestial
Celestial Angel
Celestial Archetype
comparative religion
Das Iranische
De Menasce
Divine Epiphany
Divine Ipseity
En Islam Iranien
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Esoteric Hierarchy
Esoteric Sodality
eternal
Eternal Time
godhead
Grand Cycle
Holy Imams
Islamic philosophy
Ismaili Gnosis
Ismaili Philosophy
Ismaili Theosophy
Johann Georg Gichtel
late antiquity spirituality
Limited Time
michael
persian
phenomenological analysis of Ismailism
phenomenology of religion
Sassanid Iran studies
Shi'i mysticism
Spiritual Birth
supreme
Supreme Godhead
text
Theophanic Visions
theosophy
True Prophet
Tutelary Angel
Umm Al Kitab
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780710300478
- Weight: 570g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jan 1983
- Publisher: Kegan Paul
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
