Ibn’ Arabi – ‘Alone with the Alone’: Henry Corbin

Uplifting 6-minute video. 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.