In 1933 he married Stella Leenhardt. In 1938, he completed the first translation of one of Heidegger's works into French ("Was ist Metaphysik?", as "Qu’est-ce que la metaphysique?"). In 1939 they traveled to Istanbul, and in 1945 to Tehran. They returned to Paris one year later in July 1946. In 1949, Corbin first attended the annual Eranos Conferences in Ascona, Switzerland. In 1954 he succeeded Louis Massignon in the Chair of Islam and the Religions of Arabia. From the 1950s on he spent autumn in Tehran, winter in Paris and spring in Ascona.