Bøker av Seyyed Hossein Nasr

A collection of essays covers many facets of Islamic life and thought. The author brings together studies dealing with the practical as well as intellectual aspects of Islam in both their historical and contemporary reality.

This work presents basic notions concerning the seemingly contradictory sacred sciences. It examines the need for such sciences in the modern world, their meaning and applications.

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 world's leading Islamicist offers a concise introduction to this rich and diverse tradition of 1.2 billion adherents. In this informative and clear introduction to the world of Islam, Seyyed Hossein Nasr explores the following topics in depth: •What Is Islam? •The Doctrines and Beliefs of Islam •Islamic Practices and Institutions •The History of Islam •Schools of Islamic Thought •Islam in the Contemporary World •Islam and Other Religions •The Spiritual and Religious Significance of Islam

The world's fastest-growing religion is also the most misunderstood in the West. In Islam in the Modern World, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, one of the world's leading experts on Islamic thought, explains why traditional Islam exists in tension with modern Western culture, while at the same time it is also opposed by many currents of Islamic ?fundamentalism.? Islam in the Modern World offers an inside look at this increasingly factious religion with increasing global relevance.

In this book, a series of interviews offers an accessible, revealing, human and intellectual biography of leading Islamic scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr is one of the preeminent philosophers writing today.

Suitable for both students and scholars of Persian philosophy, this title 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.

Concentrates on "The Roots of the Islamic Tradition and Spirituality". This work examines the divisions of Islamic community with their distinctive pieties and emphasises on: Sunnism and Shi'ism and female spirituality. It draws on Sufism - its nature and origin, its early development, its various spiritual practices and its science of the soul.

Sufism has made significant contributions to the spread of Islam and the development of various aspects of Islamic civilisation. Many conservative Muslims disagree with various Sufi practices. This title provides the beliefs and vision of the mystical heart of Islam.

This work, written by the foremost authority on the subject, includes an in-depth survey of the individual Islamic sciences from cosmology, philosophy, theology to alchemy, physics, mathematics, astronomy and medicine, concluding with a chapter on the gnostic tradition.

A leading expert on Islam seeks to distinguish the central values of the religion from the actions of those responsible for contemporary violence, tracing each value's roots in Islamic scripture while identifying parallels between Islam and other major traditions. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.