Impact of Allameh Tabatabai attitude on islamology of Henry Corbin about mysticism

Document Type : Research Paper

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PHD's student

Abstract

This research studies the concept of mysticism, its origin ,its different forms of religious and non-religious and its ability also to reveal the mystery of creation. The main objective of this research is to study the impact of Allameh Tabatabai thinking as a mystic and Islamic scholar, on the idea of Corbin ,philosopher and east scholar ,in the field of Islamic mysticism and Sufism , which changes his view not only in the field of Iranian Islam, particularly Islamic mysticism, but changes his point of view in general . According to the study, Corbin with emphasizing on Iranian-Islamic mysticism feature (Twelver Shi'ism), which finds its roots in pontificate and contact with Imam Mahdi , not considering any separation between philosophy and mysticism, presents western mysticism as a rupture between theology and philosophy and the basis of creation of secular thinking in west .Thus , this French philosopher knows Iranian-Islamic mysticism a solution to protect the world against secularism .

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