/lit/ - Literature

>>21863450
Been reading this. An exhaustive study, attempting to retrieve this knowledge for western audiences. Reading this with Dante is one of the most joyful communions of thought. They're almost the same genius as if there is a perennial faith around the female form. Sophia, Helen, THE VIRGIN MARY! If the only point of literature is to recognize the feelings of the depths and know yourself then at least entertaining the possibility one can't accept ,devout worship , deepens our life.

List of Islamic and Persian Neoplatonists and their descendants, feel free to add, for me these are the important names worth reading:
>Ibn Arabi, Sufi mystic, founder of the school of Akbariyya.
>Suhrawardi, founder of the Iranian school of Illuminationism
>Mulla Sadra, founder of the Iranian school of Transcendent Theosophy. Notable for arguing against Aristotelians and the Illuminationists for an Existensionalist Platonism, and for the continual change/motion of substance as a process philosophy of becoming
>Henry Corbin, French translator of the above, introduced their study to the West, coined the "Imaginal World" as a translation for the Arabic alam al-khayal, itself a grand development of the Greek phantasia to give it a central role in epistemology and ontology
>James Hillman, began as a Jungian psychologist, Neo-Renaissance Platonist, founder of Archetypal Psychology, heavily influenced by Henry Corbin.

Also to note
>Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Khamenei, head of the Sadra Islamic Philosophy Research Institute, organises and produces English (and Persian) philosophy conferences and works on Sadran Platonism with Western academics, website is an excellent resource of free PDF books and papers.

>>17011073
Henry Corbin is very good.

>>17011082
Neoplatonism with Islamic charactersitics. Poetic and beautiful with genuine contributions to the school.