slam İrfanı’nın derinliğine nüfuz etmeye çalışan Corbin, İslam araştırmaları alanında saygın bir isimdir. İbn Rüşd’e kadarki dönemi kapsayan incelemesinde, akılcılık-nakilcilik ayrışmasının oluşumunu konu ediyor ve daha sonraki dönemlerde meydana gelen gelişmelere de ana çizgileri ile değiniyor.
Henry Corbin was a philosopher, theologian and professor of Islamic Studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. As a boy he revealed the profound sensitivity to music so evident in his work. Although he was Protestant by birth, he was educated in the Catholic tradition and at the age of 19 received a certificate in Scholastic philosophy from the Catholic Institute of Paris. Three years later he took his "licence de philosophie" under the great Thomist Étienne Gilson. In 1928 he encountered the formidable Louis Massignon, director of Islamic studies at the Sorbonne, and it was he who introduced Corbin to the writings of Suhrawardi, the 12th century Persian mystic and philosopher whose work was to profoundly affect the course of Corbin’s life. The stage was then set for a personal drama that has deep significance for understanding those cultures whose roots lie in both ancient Greece and in the prophetic religions of the Near East reaching all the way back to Zoroaster. Years later Corbin said “through my meeting with Suhrawardi, my spiritual destiny for the passage through this world was sealed. Platonism, expressed in terms of the Zoroastrian angelology of ancient Persia, illuminated the path that I was seeking.” Corbin is responsible for redirecting the study of Islamic philosophy as a whole. In his Histoire de la philosophie islamique (1964), he disproved the common view that philosophy among the Muslims came to an end after Ibn Rushd, demonstrating rather that a lively philosophical activity persisted in the eastern Muslim world – especially Iran – and continues to our own day.
Corbin, genel kanının aksine İbni Rüşd'ün ölümünden sonra İslam felsefesinin devam ettiğini ve hatta bazı açılardan daha kaliteli hale geldiğini savunuyor. Dolayısıyla 2.cildi tamamen "İbni Rüşd ölünce İslam Felsefesi de öldü" tezini çökertmek için kullanmış. Tasavvuf ve Metafizik temelli bir dönem olduğu için şahsen sıkılarak okudum. Çoğu düşünür veya düşünce okulu vikipedi seviyesinde anlatılmış, aceleyle geçilmiş ve kitap ilk cilde göre çok özensiz.
İlk ciltten tek iyi yanı çevirmeni diyebilirim. Ahmet Arslan, ilk cildi çeviren Hatimi gibi kitabı dipnota boğmamış ve en önemlisi çok daha akıcı bir şekilde çevirmiş. Yazdığı giriş de oldukça hoş.