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Avicenna and the Visionary Recital

Paperback • 2014 • English

Avicenna and the Visionary Recital

By Henry Corbin

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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...Show more

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9780691600703

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2014

Language

English

Original title

Avicenna and the Visionary Recital

Format

Paperback

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