Henry Corbin

Henry Corbin's works explore imagination, visionary experience, philosophy, cyclical time, spiritual bodies, symbolic interpretation, and the relation between visible and unseen worlds. Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi treats imagination as an active mode of perception rather than mere fantasy. Avicenna and the Visionary Recital examines philosophical narrative as a journey of understanding.

Cyclical Time and Ismaili Gnosis and Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth develop questions of time, cosmology, and the forms through which spiritual meaning becomes intelligible. History of Islamic Philosophy places such ideas within a wider conversation. Corbin's books repeatedly ask how a symbol can disclose knowledge without becoming a simple factual description, and how interpretation can remain faithful to an experience that exceeds literal language.