Avicenna and the Visionary Recital: (Mythos Series)

by Henry Corbin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691600708
• ISBN13: 9780691600703
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"