Avicenna and the Visionary Recital (Mythos Series)
Corbin, Henry 1903-1978
Avicenna and the Visionary Recital (Mythos Series) Henry Corbin - 1 online resource (440 pages). - Bollingen Series (General) Princeton legacy library Bollingen series 66 Mythos Princeton/Bollingen paperbacks .
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 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
1990
9781400859061
10.1515/9781400859061 doi
Islamic philosophy--Early works to 1800
Islamic philosophy
Islamic philosophy.
Social Sciences.
Sociology.
Islamic philosophy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
Lasky collection
B751.R63 B751.R63
181/.5 189.5 181/.5
Avicenna and the Visionary Recital (Mythos Series) Henry Corbin - 1 online resource (440 pages). - Bollingen Series (General) Princeton legacy library Bollingen series 66 Mythos Princeton/Bollingen paperbacks .
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 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
1990
9781400859061
10.1515/9781400859061 doi
Islamic philosophy--Early works to 1800
Islamic philosophy
Islamic philosophy.
Social Sciences.
Sociology.
Islamic philosophy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
Lasky collection
B751.R63 B751.R63
181/.5 189.5 181/.5