Alone with the Alone

Gorgeous. Made me cry. Thank you reader Karen, who asked, in sending it, “Is there anything more important now than Coming Home to the Divine?”

Published on Mar 31, 2015
One of the 20th century’s most prolific scholars of Islamic mysticism, Henry Corbin (1903-1978) was Professor of Islam & Islamic Philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the University of Tehran. (Iran)

Corbin’s central project was to provide a framework for understanding the unity of the religions of the Book: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. His great work: “Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn ‘Arabi “is a classic initiatory text of visionary spirituality that transcends the tragic divisions among the three great monotheisms.
Corbin’s life was devoted to the struggle to free the religious imagination from fundamentalisms of every kind.

Mystic, philosopher, poet, sage, Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi is one of the world’s great spiritual teachers.
Ibn ‘Arabi was born in Murcia, Spain in 1165 and his writings had an immense impact throughout the Islamic world and beyond. The universal ideas underlying his thought are of immediate relevance today.

Music: Armand Amar

About Ann Kreilkamp

PhD Philosophy, 1972. Rogue philosopher ever since.
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2 Responses to Alone with the Alone

  1. Jamie Beatty says:

    Thank you for this

  2. Mark White says:

    Love this!! I will sit with it again. But with a printed version so that I can pause for as long as I need at each line. For me, this was a very powerful, masterfully strung set of words.

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