
Avicenna and the Visionary Recital
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 i...
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 i...