A bibliography of Henry Corbin

A bibliography of Henry Corbin (d. 1978) and Shaykhism

A recent Arabic translation

Nazrat al-Faylasuf fi sirat al-Shaykh al-Ahsa'i wa'l-Sayyid al-Rashti

al-Faylasuf al-Faransi al-Duktur Henri Corbin.... ed. Radi Nasir al-Salman

translated by Khalil Zamil. Beirut + Damascus.. 1423/2002

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En Islam iranien, Aspects spirituels et philosophiques. Tome IV L'Ecole d'Ispahan, L-Ecole shaykhie Le Douzieme Imam.

This 4th volume of Corbin's ground-breaking En Islam Iranien (first published in 1972) after a consideration of the `School of Isfahan' deals in considerable detail (pp. 205-300 ed. Gallimard, 1972) with `The Shaykhi school' and its leading figures, followed by a section centering on the question of the messianic 12th Imam/ Qā'im.

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L-École Shaykhie en Théologie Shî`ite. Extrait de'l-Annuaire 1960-61 (Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes Section des Sciences Religieuses). Reproduction Anastatique. Traduction Persane par Feredoun Bahmanyar. Pages 1-59 in French with the title `L-École Shaykhie en Théologie Shî`ite' then its Persian Translation by Dr. Feredoun Bahmanyar pp.1-105 to which there is also a 3 page French Preface by Corbin dated Tehran December 1966/ Azar 1345. The Persian front, cover page is entitled: Maktab Shaykhī āz ḥikmat-i ilāhī shī `ī bi-qalam Henri Corbin .. with Persian trans. Dr. Feridoun Bahmanyar. Tehran Chāp-Tābān, 1347/1967.

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Terre celéste et corps de résurrection de'l-Iran Mazdéen a 'l-Iran Shi`ite. Paris: XX., 1960.

Eng. trans. Nancy Pearson. Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth, From Mazdean Iran to Shī`ite Iran. 3rd ed. London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. 1990.

Ch. IX = `The Shaykhī School: Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsā'ī (d.1241/1826).

1. Physiology of the Resurrection Body pp. 180-189.

Extract translated from the Sharḥ al-Ziyāra (Lithograph, Tabriz, 1276/1859), 369-370.

2. On the Esoteric Meaning of the Tomb pp.189-191.

Extract from the Risālat al-qāṭifiyya in Jawāmi` al-kalim I/2 (3rd Risāla), p.136.

3. The Heavens and Elements of Hūrqalyā pp.191-197.

Extracts from the reply to Mulla Muhammad Husayn Anari Kirmani, in Jawāmi` al-kalim I/3 ( 9th Risāla), pp.153-4.

4. Alchemy and the Resurrection Body pp.197-210.

Translated from an Epistle for Fatḥ `Alī Shah Qajar (d. 1834) in Jawāmi` al-kalim I/1 (5th Risāla), pp.122-4.

5. The Active Imagination and the Resurrection Body pp. 210-221. Extracts translated from Kitab Sharh ḥikmat al-`arshiyya, (Lithograph Tabriz, 1278/1861) pp.175-6, 179-80, 186-7.

Ch. X = Shaykhī Hajji Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani...

1. In what sense is the Body of the Faithful Believer is the Earth of His Paradise. pp.222-236.

Extract from the Persian Irshād al-`awāmm. .. Kirman 1354/1935 vol.1 Pt. ii pp. 48-9, 66-68,271,277,282-6.

2. A World in Ascent, Not in Evolution. pp.236-239

Extract trans from Irshād al-`awāmm. .. Kirman 1354/1935 vol.2 Pt. 3 pp.274-5.

Ch. XI = Shaykhī Abu'l-Qasim Khan Ibrahimi (Sarkar Agha). Fifth successor to Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa'i (b.1314/1896).

The Celestial Earth of Hurqalya and the Shiite Faith, pp.240-268.

Extract translated from the Persian Tanzīh al-awliyā. Kirman 1367/1947, 5th Question, pp. 702-726.

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Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn `Arabi, trans. Ralph Manheim, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969.

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`Realisme et Symbolisme des Couleurs en Cosmologie Shi`ite'. Paper delivered at the annual Eranos Conference (at Ascona Ticino, Switzerland) in 1972, which had the theme `Le Monde des Couleurs' The proceedings were first published in Eranos-Jahrbuch XLI (1972), (Leiden: E.J.Brill, 1974) with the lengthy Corbin paper being on pp.109-175(6). This paper also appears in the 1980 French volume of collected papers of Henri Corbin entitled Tempel et Contemplation (Paris: Flammarion et Cie) which was translated into English by Philip Sherrard in the (Isma'ili) series `Islamic Texts and Contexts' as Temple and Contemplation (London, Boston, Henley: KPI. 1986 ). In this English volume the Corbin paper is entitled, `The Realism and Symbolism of Colours in Shi`ite Cosmology' , According the "Book of the Red Hyacinth" by Shaykh Muḥammad Karīm Khān Kirmānī (d. 1870).

As indicated this paper, put out in translation by the Institute of Isma'ili Studies (London) is 54 pp long in the English translation of a work of the 3rd Kirmānī Shaykhī leader. The original Arabic [+Persian] treatise of Karīm Khān Kirmānī was entitled [Kitāb] Yāqūtih aḥmar (lit. "The [Book of] the Red Ruby"). It deals with the phenomenon of colour in general which also pertains in subtle ways in suprasensible, spiritual worlds (Pt.I) then with the colour red (aḥmar) in particular (Pt. II) The 1060 verse Arabic original has once been published in the series Majmu`a al-rasā'il vol. 71 (Kirmānī, Fihrist, no. 484, p. 421)

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It might also be noted here that the volume, `Color Symbolism, Six Excerpts from the Eranos Yearbook 1972' (Dallas, Texas: Spring Publications Inc. 1974+1977) does not contain the Corbin paper.