Cyclical time and Ismaili gnosis
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TextSeries: (Islamic texts and contexts)London Kegan Paul International c1983Description: x, 212p.; bibliog. notes; indicesContent type: - text
- unmediated
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- 0-7103-0048-4
- BP195.I8 C6813 1983
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Pub. in assoc. with Islamic Publications, London.
1 Cyclical time in Mazdaism and Ismailism (tr. by Ralph Manheim). 1 Cyclical time in Mazdaism. 2 Cyclical time in Ismailism. 2 Divine epiphany and spiritual birth in Ismailian gnosis (tr. by Ralph Manheim). 1 The metamorphoses of theophanic visions. 2 Ebionite and Ismailin adamology. 3 Hierarchies and cycles: the fundamental angelology of Ismailism. 4 Imamology and Docetism. 5 The eternal imam. 6 The "quest of the imam". 3 From the gnosis of antiquity to Ismaili gnosis (tr. by James W. Morris)
'...comprises three of Corbin's lectures on fundamental themes of classical Ismaili thought. The Ismaili tradition, a branch of Shiite Islam, derives its identity from a unique conception of Prophethood and the Imamate, seen as manifestations on Earth of "events in Heaven."'
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