Alone with the Alone:
Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi
Henry Corbin
Translated by Ralph Manheim

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	List of Plates
	Preface
	Introduction
	Between Andalusia and Iran: A Brief Spiritual Topography	3
	The Curve and Symbols of Ibn 'Arabi's Life	38
	At Averroes' Funeral	38
	The Pilgrim to the Orient	46
	The Disciple of Khidr	53
	His Maturity and the Completion of His Work	68
	The Situation of Esoterism	77
	Divine Passion and Compassion	105
	The Prayer of the Heliotrope	105
	The "Pathetic God"	112
	Of Unio Mystica as Unio Sympathetica	120
	Sophiology and Devotio Sympathetica	136
	The Sophianic Poem of a Fedele d'amore	136
	The Dialectic of Love	145
	The Creative Feminine	157
	Prologue	179
	The Creation as Theophany	184
	The Creative Imagination as Theophany, or the "God from Whom All Being Is Created"	184
	The God Manifested by the Theophanic Imagination	190
	The "God Created in the Faiths"	195
	The Recurrence of Creation	200
	The Twofold Dimension of Beings	207
	Theophanic Imagination and Creativity of the Heart	216
	The Field of the Imagination	216
	The Heart as a Subtile Organ	221
	The Science of the Heart	237
	Man's Prayer and God's Prayer	246
	The Method of Theophanic Prayer	246
	Homologations	257
	The Secret of the Divine Responses	262
	The "Form of God"	272
	The Hadith of the Vision	272
	Around the Mystic Ka'aba	277
	Epilogue	282
	Notes and Appendices	285
	List of Works Cited	391
	Index	399

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