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Title: |
The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism |
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| By (author): |
Henry Corbin Translated by: Nancy Pearson Foreword by: Pir Zia Inayat Khan |
| ISBN10-13: |
0930872487 : 9780930872489 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
214x139x14mm |
| Pages: |
174 |
| Weight: |
.259 Kg. |
| Published: |
Suluk Press - May 1994 |
| List Price: |
20.99 Pounds Sterling |
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Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
Sufism & Islamic mysticism |
| Classic work on Suhrawardiâ s Illuminationist school of Persian Sufism by renowned philosopher and Iranologist Henry Corbin. In the Sufism of ancient Iran, the quest for the dawning of light in the cosmic North symbolizes the mysticâ s search for realization. In this spiritual journey, the light arising in manâ s inner darknessâ the Northern Light or Midnight Sunâ represents the impartial but brilliant light of Truth, that which sets us free from egotism and from slavery to material existence. In a penetrating analysis of the writings of the great Iranian mastersâ including Suhrawardi, Semnani, and Najm al-Din Kubraâ Corbin sees an unfolding and continuity of the idea of color and light as symbols of spiritual development. In the course of this study, Corbin constantly relates the ideas of Persian Sufism to the spiritual knowledge of other Middle and Far Eastern religions. |
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