Temple and Contemplation (Islamic Texts and Contexts)

This volume brings together five lectures which were originally delivered at different sessions of the famous Eranos Conferences in Ascona, Switzerland. Henry Corbin him self had outlined the plan for this book, whose title suggests that these diverse studies converge on a common spiritual centre. The last three studies explicitly ask us to reflect on the role of the heavenly Temple, or the archetype of the Temple, in the spiritual traditions of the Religions of the Book No other work of Henry Corbin brings out
more clearly the hermeneutic correspondences among spiritual visions belonging to those religions-religions which differ in their outward aspect, but whose inner dim ension (the batin) reveals many comparable forms and structures .