Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi (Princeton/Bollingen paperbacks)

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Summary: Philosophers have to make things difficult
Review: Corbin, the late French Islamicist initially influened by existentialist thought, should be credited for rendering Ibn Arabi more difficult than the Muslim sufi himself -- this by itself is quite an achievement: the obscurity of an Arabic theosopher compounded by the obscurity of a French philosopher. Only in the academy!!!