Mounir Hafez

Mounir Hafez , born the September 26th 1911 with Alexandria and dead on January 1st 1998, is a major reference of the Soufisme in France.

Biography

Of Egyptian origin and related with the royal family, Mounir Hafez settles definitively in France starting from 1952, when the revolution nassérienne the constrained one with the exile. Starting from 1954, he is the pupil of Henry Corbin, in the practical School of the High Studies - he will support a thesis on the Moslem mystic -, collaborates in various reviews, of which " The Saint-Jacques" Tower; , of Robert Tinder, takes part in a group of research on the History of Traditional Sciences, with Eugene Canselliet, Rene Alleau, etc, multiplies the conferences and teaches with the EPHE like in the Sorbonne (1959-1960) on the topic of the Islam vis-a-vis new acquisitions of the thought. As from the Years 1970, Mounir Hafez will be devoted to its teaching, in public, but also in more restricted circles, until its death in 1998.

Course

Mounir Hafez belongs to a “family of spirits” whose certain names are well-known. It is contemporary of the orientalist Louis Massignon with whom it will owe his interest for Hallâj, of “the iranist” Henry Corbin, but also of poets like Armel Guerne and Henri Michaux of which he will be the secretary and in connection with which he will have these words: “In the exiled Occident, it gives again passport”, - painters also (Nicolas de Staël) and scientists: “Physics should be read”, will say it at the end of its life.

That it gave conferences to the famous " Tuesday of Dar be-Salam" , with the Dominican ones of the Cairo, or that it published, in its youth, of the poems in surrealist reviews , which it attended Louis Massignon and Henry Corbin, and as well Georges Bataille, Emil Cioran that Maurice Blanchot, that it is found collaborating in " God vivant" (Moré, Massignon, Daniélou) as with the literary review of Henri Parisot, " Four Vents" , that it was interested in the Hermétisme and the Alchimie or that it studied the Astrophysique, he did not cease, his life during, to weave bonds between the worlds - geographical and intellectual.

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