Zahra Bahremand
Abstract
Resālat al-Abrāj or Kalemāte Zowqiye is one of Sohrevardi’s symbolic treatises in Arabic studied less. With Henry Corbin’s phenomenological hermeneutics, we understand it represents the story of lovingly returning of a soul to his original homeland, in which is revealed to the soul his ...
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Resālat al-Abrāj or Kalemāte Zowqiye is one of Sohrevardi’s symbolic treatises in Arabic studied less. With Henry Corbin’s phenomenological hermeneutics, we understand it represents the story of lovingly returning of a soul to his original homeland, in which is revealed to the soul his story of travelling through the phenomena of real and live symbols, in such a manner that he is saved and returned to his origin through this revealing. Corbin believes "returning to the Origin" is the very principle that contemporary man has forgotten following the body-mind dualism of post-Descartian cosmology, caused by disappearing of an intermediator i.e. the world of soul in his active and spiritual imagination. What makes imagination agent and spiritual is the love for returning to the true homeland; with gnosis reminding it and referring to the angelic origin. Corbin describes the spiritual hermeneutics as returning to the origins and archetypes of phenomena, revealed to the soul through dematerialization and active imagination in the intermediate world. He tries to represent the contemporary aspect of “mundus imaginalis” as the theory of “active imagination” and his especial phenomenology. Here we present this lovingly returning in the mirror of symbols wherein the origins of phenomena appeared.
ahmad reza honari
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Abstract Symbolism in the field of metaphysics is a method that has always been considered and widely used in various religious and mystical and philosophical schools, as well as traditional arts such as Iranian Islamic art. Applying this method requires providing its own existential and epistemological ...
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Abstract Symbolism in the field of metaphysics is a method that has always been considered and widely used in various religious and mystical and philosophical schools, as well as traditional arts such as Iranian Islamic art. Applying this method requires providing its own existential and epistemological foundations. Given that metaphysical symbolism is related to the realm of existence, and in Islamic wisdom, the originality of existence and the originality of essence are the two foundations that have been proposed in the field of ontology and each has its own supporters, so this study seeks to answer this question. Are these two bases compatible with symbolism? Which is preferable to the other and what are the reasons for this preference? Given that the basis of the originality of existence provides a deeper look at existence, and also the metaphysical symbolism is based on the gradiation and the hierarchy of existence, so it is consistent with the originality of existence and this is preferable to the originality of essence Provide symbolism theory.
