[From the French language press]:La découverte des œuvres d’Henry Corbin, au cours de mes études, a été probablement mon plus grand choc intellectuel : ayant abordé son «Histoire de la philosophie islamique» un peu par hasard, je lisais enfin avec étonnement ce que j’avais toujours attendu, sans jamais le trouver.
Oumma.com, France - lundi le 19 mars 2007 - par Jean-Michel Cros
The discovery of the works of Henry Corbin, during my studies, was probably my greater intellectual shock: having approached his “History of Islamic philosophy” a little by chance, I finally read with astonishment that what I had always waited for, without ever finding it.
The attitude of Corbin appeared to me, and still does, primarily just: only a sympathy toward your subject, a spiritual sharing, a progressive initiation with the concepts of the other allow the comprehension of the thought of the other, and make it possible to establish footbridges between civilizations.
It is by this hospitality, required and accepted, that one can know and make known what a thought have of non-contingent, of universal: "[…] in the case of the Shiism more still perhaps than for any other religious universe, the indispensable condition to penetrate it and live the spirit of it, it is to be the spiritual host for it. But to be the host of a spiritual universe, it is to start with him to make in yourself a residence. "*
But to try to explain what is the quiet thought, the inner search for light, let alone Shiism, to a public filled with the noise and rage of media news about Islam, it seems almost an impossible task.
I was told: "It is normal: you speak of sufism, they think of immigrants".
*CORBIN (Henry), En islam iranien – Aspects spirituels et philosophiques, éd. Gallimard, coll. Tel, tome 1, p. 7
[Picture: stucco muqarnas niches in the fifth floor 'music room' at Ali Qapu palace, Isfahan (Iran), early 17th century]
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