Alone with the Alone
by University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton (9780691058344)

Alone with the Alone (Book)

University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
Release Date: 2 Mar 1998
Format: paperback
Pages: 454
ISBN: 9780691058344
ISBN-10: 0691058342

Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240) was one of the greatest mystics of all time. Through the richness of his personal experience and the constructive power of his intellect, he made a unique contribution to Shi'ite Sufism. In this book, the author shows the reader the core of this movement with an analysis of Ibn 'Arabi's life doctrines.;Henry Corbin begins with a kind of spiritual topography of the 12th century, emphasizing the differences between exoteric and esoteric forms of Islam. He also relates Islamic mysticism to mystical thought in the West. The remainder of the book is devoted to two complementary essays: on "Sympathy and Theosophy" and "Creative Imagination and Creative Prayer.";Harold Bloom's preface links Sufi mysticism with Shakespeare's visionary dramas and high tragedies, such as "The Tempest" and "Hamlet". These works, he writes, intermix the empirical world with a transcendent element. Bloom shows us that this Shakespearean cosmos is analogous to Corbin's "Imaginal Realm" of the Sufis, the place of soul or souls.

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