ABSTRACT
The work of Henry Corbin extends over different areas of Islamic thought and includes a considerable informative contribution, with editions of texts and doctrinal translations and commentaries. But its significance goes far beyond what is commonly called “Orientalism”. Corbin did not seek to display the teaching of the authors he studied in the display cases of a museum of the philosophy of the past. Rather, his aim was to show how far their themes and their presence in the world could illuminate and stimulate intellectual activity at any time, and especially in our own time so often forgetful of its own beginnings.
