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Speakers:
DR TOM CHEETHAM
is the author of three books on the implications of
Continuing
Henry Corbin’s work for contemporary spirituality: Education
The World Turned Inside Out, Green Man–Earth Angel
and After Prophecy. He was Associate Professor and
Director of Environmental Studies at Wilson College in
Pennsylvania and is Adjunct Professor at the College
of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine and has taught at Henry Corbin,
Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpenteria, CA.
DR JOHN CAREY
Islam and the
is a lecturer in the Department of Early and Medi-
eval Irish, University College Cork and editor of the
Temenos Academy Review. His most recent book is
Imagination
Ireland and the Grail. In association with the
DR LEONARD LEWISOHN Temenos Academy
is Lecturer in Persian and Iran Heritage Foundation Fel-
low in Classical Persian and Sufi Literature at the Insti- Saturday 9 October 2010
tute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter,
where he currently teaches Persian language, Persian A day school to be held at Rewley
poetry in translation, Sufism and Islamic spirituality. House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford
TOM DURHAM
is an actor with particular interest in the
performance of challenging poetry. He can be heard
regularly as a reader on Radio 3.
THE DAY WILL BE CHAIRED BY
PROFESSOR GREVEL LINDOP
Formerly Professor of Romantic and Early
Victorian Studies at Manchester University
and Fellow of the Temenos Academy.
Director of Studies:
REV DR ROBIN GIBBONS
Director of Studies in Theology and Religious Studies,
OUDCE
www.conted.ox.ac.uk
Henry Corbin, ENROLMENT FORM
Islam and the PROGRAMME
HENRY CORBIN,
Imagination SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER 2010
ISLAM AND THE IMAGINATION
O10P216THJ [X7216]

A day school to be held Name

9.15am Registration
Rewley House, 1 Wellington
Square Oxford 9.30am The prophetic tradition and the Address
battle for the soul of the world:
an introduction to the spiritual

H
enry Corbin (1903-1978) is most widely vision of Henry Corbin
known as one of the 20th century’s most
DR TOM CHEETHAM
important and prolific scholars of Is- Postcode
Adjunct Professor, College of the Atlantic,
lamic mysticism. But he was also an ecumenical Bar Harbor, Maine and Fellow of the Temenos
theologian and philosopher whose cross-cultural Academy Daytime Tel.
perspective is of profound significance for the
contemporary world. He introduced the concept of 10.45am Coffee/tea Email
the mundus imaginalis into contemporary thought
and his work has had a lasting impact on scholars 11.15am The role of the grail in Henry
of religion, depth psychologists, visionary think- Corbin’s thought
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a complex and pluralistic age. 2.00pm In search of lost speech: nostalgia, able to enrol directly onto this day school.
eros and the angel out ahead
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3.15pm Tea/coffee
With full lunch £60.50
3.45pm Correspondences between English
With baguette lunch £52.50
Front cover image: Idea pigment and gum arabic on paper by Lisa romantic and Persian Sufi poets
DeLong, Graduate of The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts DR LEONARD LEWISOHN Without lunch (includes t/c) £50.00
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