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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Henry Corbin, Maxime Rodinson, Henri Cordier, Eugene Burnouf, Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron, Francois Petis de la Croix, Louis-Mathieu Langles, Joseph Halevy, Chretien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes, Melchior de Vogue, Pascal Coste, Salomon Munk, Jean Denis, comte Lanjuinais, Emile-Louis Burnouf, Jacques Legrand, Marie-Jean-Leon, Marquis d'Hervey de Saint Denys, Etienne Dinet, Rene Dussaud, Pierre Amedee Jaubert, Eugene Flandin, Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau, Henri Maspero, Olivier Roy, Etienne Marc Quatremere, Barthelemy d'Herbelot, Henry Laurens, James Darmesteter, Charles Saint-Prot, Claude Cahen, Marie-Felicite Brosset, Arthur-Marie Le Hir, Hermann Zotenberg, Achille Harlay de Sancy, Paul-Louis-Felix Philastre, Paulin Martin, Luc-Willy Deheuvels, Armand-Pierre Caussin de Perceval, Peter of Poitiers, Louis-Pierre-Eugene Sedillot, Louis Bazin, Jean-Pierre LaFouge, Joseph Derenbourg, Jean-Louis Burnouf, Fulgence Fresnel, Hartwig Derenbourg, Marius Chaine, Joseph Toussaint Reinaud, Louis Felicien de Saulcy, Maturin Veyssiere La Croze, Eusebe Renaudot, Joachim Menant, Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet, Philippe Stern, Jean Allemand, Achille-Constant-Theodore-Emile Prisse d'Avennes, Andre du Ryer, Claude-Etienne Savary, Robert Gauthiot. Excerpt: Henry Corbin (14 April 1903 - 7 October 1978) was a philosopher, theologian and professor of Islamic Studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. Corbin was born in Paris in April 1903. 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 Etienne Gilson. In 1928 he encountered the formidable Louis...
