Avicenna and the Visionary Recital: (Mythos Series)In this work a distinguished scholar of Islamic religion examines the mysticism and psychological thought of the great eleventh century Persian philosopher and physician Avicenna (Ibn Sina), author of over a hundred works on theology, logic, medicine, and mathematics. Henry Corbin's discovery in an Istanbul library of the manuscript of a Persian translation of and commentary on Avicenna's Hayy ibn Yaqzan, written in Arabic, led him to an analysis of