Original title:

Author: Yahya C. Bonaud

Preface:

Original language:

Translator: E. Tabano

Publisher: Il Cerchio

Year of publication: 2010

Number of pages: 188

ISBN: 8884742366

The text that we present here is the Italian translation of the first part of the French original and deals with the formation of Imam Khomeini at the hawza, traditional school of religious studies of Qom, and his works, specifically those of a metaphysical and spiritual character. It can therefore act as a necessary and even complete vehicle in itself to approach the understanding of the innermost substance of thought that has animated the action of the Imam throughout his life, that is the search for the spiritual End of man who it is the Knowledge of God, which is fully highlighted in the second part of the original text. The latter is in fact a sort of thematic anthology of texts by the Imam, which shows his vision of the world permeated by gnostic knowledge, whose traditional contributions bring together the work of Ibn 'Arabî, that of Mollâ Sadrâ and the corpus of prophetic sayings reported and transmitted by the infallible Imams, in a whole in which the inner vein proper to Imam Khomeini goes to extract the lymph of a living and profound teaching revised in the light of his intellect and his heart. The second part of the French original will be, God willing, translated later for the benefit of those who, ...