Mircea Eliade's phenomenology of religion (inspired by Husserl and Heidegger, among others) repeatedly rails against the "terror of history", while also making affirmative claims about history in an ambivalent way, creating a positive tension between phenomenology and history. Likewise, Henri Corbin's phenomenological interpretation of Islam (Corbin was the first French translator of Heidegger's What is Metaphysics?) aims at a metahistorical perspective which is also ambivalent about the value of history. The aim of the presentation is to reconstruct the views of these two thinkers, not necessarily as completely coherent, but taking into account the different beliefs that exist in parallel.