Ziad Elmarsafy, Esoteric Islam in Modern French Thought: Massignon, Corbin, Jambet

Ziad Elmarsafy

Esoteric Islam in Modern French Thought: Massignon, Corbin, Jambet

Description

Why would a devout Catholic, a committed Protestant, and a Maoist atheist devote their lives and work to the study of esoteric aspects of Islam? How are these aspects 'good to think with'? What are the theoretical and intellectual problems to which they provide solutions? These are the questions at the heart of Esoteric Islam in Modern French Thought. The three French specialists of Islam described above form an intellectual and personal genealogy that structures the core of the text: Massignon taught Corbin, who taught Jambet in his turn. Each of them found in the esoteric a solution to otherwise insurmountable problems: desire for Massignon, certainty for Corbin, and resurrection/immortality for Jambet. Over the course of three long chapters focused on the life and work of each writer, the book maps the central place of esoteric Islam in the intellectual life of twentieth and twenty-first century France.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Introducing the Guest
Chapter One: Louis Massignon: In the Beginning Was Desire
Chapter Two: Henry Corbin: A Certain Vision
Chapter Three: Christian Jambet's Resurrections
Epilogue: One Being True to Oneself: Esoteric Authenticities
Bibliography
Index

Product details

Published Jul 28 2022
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 192
ISBN 9781350200180
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions 216 x 138 mm
Series New Directions in Religion and Literature
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

Source : https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/esoteric-islam-in-modern-french-thought-9781350200180/