Fifth, and finally, this insistence on the eclecticism and transcendence of the creative imagination has real and important implications for the relationship between scholarship and politics. More specifically, Corbin has been criticized for any number of perceived sins: that he was too aligned with the shah and therefore somehow participated in the European colonial project in Iran or, from the opposite direction now, that his work on Iranian mysticism ended up supporting the Iranian revolution of 1978, which deposed the shah in order to establish a theocratic system of government.
