Cyclical Time & Ismaili GnosisRoutledge, 2013 M01 11 - 256 pages First published in 1983. The volume Cyclical Time and Ismaili Gnosis brings together in English translation three of Henry Corbin's richest and most complex studies, originally presented at the Eranos conferences of 1951 and 1954 and another conference in 1956. Each of these three relatively early studies is built around a complex, highly creative 'comparison' of the phenomenological correspondences between texts (often highly fragmentary) from a vast range of spiritual traditions from late Antiquity (including Manichaenism and the sects of Sassanid Iran) - all 'gnostic' in the root Greek sense of that term favoured by Corbin, though not in the narrower historical sense used by most contemporary scholars - and comparable spiritual themes in an equally wide range of Islamic texts eventually preserved in the later Ismaili Shi'i tradition. |
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2 DIVINE EPIPHANY AND SPIRITUAL BIRTH IN ISMAILIAN GNOSIS | 59 |
3 FROM THE GNOSIS OF ANTIQUITY TO ISMAILI GNOSIS | 151 |
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Abū Acts of John adept aeon Ahriman Alamut Angel Christology angelology Anthropos Archangel archetypal Avicenna become celestial Christian Christology Christos conception corresponds cycle of Epiphany cyclical degree dimension Divine Epiphany Docetic drama dramaturgy earthly Ebionite Enoch Epiphany esoteric eternal exegesis exemplifies Fatima Fatimid figure Fravartis Gabriel gnosis Gnostic godhead hadd Heaven heavenly hierarchy homology horizon hudud Hujjat human hypostases Ibid Iblis idea Idris Imām Imāmate Imamology Incarnation initiation Iranian Iranische Islamic Ismaili Ismaili gnosis Ismailian Ivanow Jesus Kermānī Khusraw Kitāb knowledge Koran Manichaeism Mazdaism Mazdean mazhar metamorphoses mode mystery mystical Nyberg Õhrmazd origin Paradise person Pleroma precisely primordial prophetology pure Qa'im rank relation religion Resurrection Resurrector revealed Salman schema Second Intelligence sense Shiism Shiite soul spiritual Adam Strothmann symbol ta’wil Tasawwurāt tawhid Temple of Light tenth Angel theophanic theophanic visions theosophy third Angel thou tion Umm al-Kitāb Zahr Zervan Zervanite Zoroaster Zoroastrian