Esoteric Islam in Modern French Thought

Massignon, Corbin, Jambet

Professor Ziad Elmarsafy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
9781350200180 (ISBN)

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Why would a devout Catholic, a committed Protestant, and a Maoist atheist devote their lives and work to the study of esoteric aspects of Islam? How are these aspects ‘good to think with’? What are the theoretical and intellectual problems to which they provide solutions? These are the questions at the heart of Esoteric Islam in Modern French Thought. The three French specialists of Islam described above form an intellectual and personal genealogy that structures the core of the text: Massignon taught Corbin, who taught Jambet in his turn. Each of them found in the esoteric a solution to otherwise insurmountable problems: desire for Massignon, certainty for Corbin, and resurrection/immortality for Jambet. Over the course of three long chapters focused on the life and work of each writer, the book maps the central place of esoteric Islam in the intellectual life of twentieth and twenty-first century France.

Ziad Elmarsafy is Professor of Comparative Literature at King’s College London. His publications include Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel (2012).

Introduction: Introducing the Guest

Chapter One: Louis Massignon: In the Beginning Was Desire

Chapter Two: Henry Corbin: A Certain Vision

Chapter Three: Christian Jambet’s Resurrections

Epilogue: One Being True to Oneself: Esoteric Authenticities

Bibliography

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Erscheinungsdatum	22.07.2022
Reihe/Serie	New Directions in Religion and Literature
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781350200180 / 9781350200180
Zustand	Neuware