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Originally published in 1981.

This collection of essays by one of the best known contemporary Muslim scholars writing in English covers many facets of Islamic life and thought

 

Originally published 1987.

This volume is devoted not simply to the historical foundations but the essential foundations as the principle and source off the multiform Manifestations of Islamic spirituality in history and in various Islamic cultural zones.

Originally published in 1981, this collection of essays by one of the best known contemporary Muslim scholars writing in English covers many facets of Islamic life and thought.

The foremost U.S. authority on Islam and, Seyyed Hossein Nasr discusses today's hot button issues--including holy wars, women's rights, the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, and the future of Moslems in the Middle East--in this groundbreaking discussion of the fastest-growing religion in the world. One of the great scholars in the modern Islamic intellectual tradition, and the acclaimed author of books such as The Garden of Truth and The Heart of Islam, Nasr brings incomparable insight to this exploration of Muslim issues and realities, delivering a landmark publication...

This volume gathers together the numerous essays by Iranian metaphysician and ontologist Seyyed Hossein Nasr, on Islamic philosophy and the intricate relationship between Persian culture and its philosophical schools.

The fourth volume ofAn Anthology of Philosophy in Persia deals with one of the richest and yet least known periods of philosophical life in Persia, the centuries between the seventh-thirteenth century, that saw the eclipse of the school of Khorosan, and the tenth-sixteenth century that coincided with the rise of the Safavids. The main schools dealt with in this volume are the Peripatetic (mashsha'i) School, the School of Illumination (ishraq) of Suhrawardi, and various forms of philosophical Sufism, especially the school of Ibn 'Arabi, that had its origins in the works of Ghazzali...

The meaning of a science rooted in the sacred, its contrast to modern science and its pertinence to us today.