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All The World An Icon (Paperback)
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All The World An Icon (Paperback)
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"All the World an Icon" is the fourth book in an informal "quartet"
of works by Tom Cheetham on the spirituality of Henry Corbin, a
major twentieth-century scholar of Sufism and colleague of C. G.
Jung, whose influence on contemporary religion and the humanities
is beginning to become clear. Cheetham's books have helped spark a
renewed interest in the work of this important, creative religious
thinker.
Henry Corbin (1903-1978) was professor of Islamic religion at the
Sorbonne in Paris and director of the department of Iranic studies
at the Institut Franco-Iranien in Teheran. His wide-ranging work
includes the first translations of Heidegger into French, studies
in Swedenborg and Boehme, writings on the Grail and angelology, and
definitive translations of Persian Islamic and Sufi texts. He
introduced such seminal terms as "the imaginal realm" and
"theophany" into Western thought, and his use of the Shi'ite idea
of" ta'wil" or "spiritual interpretation" influenced psychologist
James Hillman and the literary critic Harold Bloom. His books were
read by a broad range of poets including Charles Olson and Robert
Duncan, and his impact on American poetry, says Cheetham, has yet
to be fully appreciated. His published titles in English include"
Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi, Avicenna and the
Visionary Recital," and "The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism."
As the religions of the Book place the divine Word at the center of
creation, the importance of hermaneutics, the theory and practice
of interpretation, cannot be overstated. In the theology and
spirituality of Henry Corbin, the mystical heart of this tradition
is to be found in the creative, active imagination; the alchemy of
spiritual development is best understood as a story of the soul's
search for the Lost Speech. Cheetham eloquently demonstrates
Corbin's view that the living interpretation of texts, whether
divine or human--or, indeed, of the world itself seen as the Text
of Creation--is the primary task of spiritual life.
In his first three books on Corbin, Cheetham explores different
aspects of Corbin's work, but has saved for this book his final
analysis of what Corbin meant by the Arabic term "ta'wil"--perhaps
the most important concept in his entire "oeuvre." "Any
consideration of how Corbin's ideas were adapted by others has to
begin with a clear idea of what Corbin himself intended," writes
Cheetham; "his own intellectual and spiritual cosmos is already
highly complex and eclectic and a knowledge of his particular
philosophical project is crucial for understanding the range and
implications of his work." Cheetham lays out the implications of
"ta'wil" as well as the use of language as integral part of any
artistic or spiritual practice, with the view that the creative
imagination is a fundamentally linguistic phenomenon for the
Abrahamic religions, and, as Corbin tells us, prayer is the supreme
form of creative imagination.
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