Henry Corbin and The Cosmic North

The French scholar of Sufism and Islamic thought, Henry Corbin, guided by Sufi mystics and sages, opens up a space for a rich phenomenology of mystical and visionary experience. In this video we explore his conception of the Cosmic North, a vertical dimension of being in which the visionary episodes of mystics take place. We draw on Corbin's reading of the 12th century Sufi mystic and philosopher, Suhrawardi, in particular, his "Recital of Occidental Exile", to help orient us to the Cosmic North.

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Corbin, Henry. Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sūfism of Ibn ʻArabī. Princeton University Press, 1998.
Corbin, Henry. The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism. Translated by Nancy Pearson. Omega Publications, 1994.
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Suhrawardī Habash Yaḥyá ibn. The Philosophy of Illumination = Ḥikmat Al-Ishrāq: A New Critical Edition of the Text of Ḥikmat Al-Ishrāq. Edited by John Walbridge and Hossein Ziai, Brigham Young University Press, 1999.