Download or read book Swedenborg and Esoteric Islam written by Henry Corbin and published by Chrysalis Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first English translation contains two essays by the eminent French Islamic scholar Henry Corbin: "Mundus Imaginalis, or the Imaginary and the Imaginal" and "Comparative Spiritual Hermeneutics." Corbin called Emanuel Swedenborg "the prophet of the internal sense of the Bible" and compared his biblical symbolism to the Quranic interpretations of the great Islamic mystics.