# Henry Corbin

French Iranologist and philosopher who recovered mystical and esoteric dimensions of Islamic thought through hermeneutics and creative imagination.

**Lived:** 1903–1978
**Nationality:** French
**Training:** Catholic Institute of Paris (Scholastic philosophy); license de philosophie under Étienne Gilson (Thomist philosophy); modern philosophy, hermeneutics, phenomenology
**Affiliation:** École pratique des hautes études (professor of Islamic studies); Eranos circle

## Key works

- *Histoire de la philosophie islamique* (1964)
- *Avicenna and the Visionary Recital* (1954)
- *Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi* (1958)
- *Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth: From Mazdean Iran to Shi'ite Iran* (1960)
- *The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism* (1971)
- *En Islam Iranien: Aspects spirituels et philosophiques*