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Knowledge and the Sacred

(Seyyed Hossein NASR)

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Harper San Francisco

Islam

Religion, History, and Civilization

(Seyyed Hossein NASR)

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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 Religions

Significance of Islam

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Open Court Publishing Company

Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr

(Seyyed Hossein NASR)

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Harper San Francisco

The Heart of Islam - Enduring Values for Humanity

(Seyyed Hossein NASR)

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As the specter of religious extremism has become a fact of life today, the temptation is great to allow the evil actions and perspectives of a minority to represent an entire tradition. In the case of Islam, there has been much recent confusion in the Western world centered on distorted portrayals of its core values. Born of ignorance, such confusion feeds the very problem at hand.

In The Heart of Islam one of the great intellectual figures in Islamic history offers a timely presentation of the core spiritual and social values of Islam: peace, compassion, social justice, and respect for the other. Seizing this unique moment in history to reflect on the essence of his tradition, Seyyed Hossein Nasr seeks to "open a spiritual and intellectual space for mutual understanding." Exploring Islamic values in scripture, traditional sources, and history, he also shows their clear counterparts in the Jewish and Christian traditions, revealing the common ground of the Abrahamic faiths.

Nasr challenges members of the world's civilizations to stop demonizing others while identifying themselves with pure goodness and to turn instead to a deeper understanding of those shared values that can solve the acute problems facing humanity today. "Muslims must ask themselves what went wrong within their own societies," he writes, "but the West must also pose the same question about itself . . . whether we are Muslims, Jews, Christians, or even secularists, whether we live in the Islamic world or in the West, we are in need of meaning in our lives, of ethical norms to guide our actions, of a vision that would allow us to live at peace with each other and with the rest of God's creation." Such help, he believes, lies at the heart of every religion and can lead the followers of the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) as well as other religious and spiritual traditions to a new future of mutual respect and common global purpose.

The Heart of Islam is a landmark presentation of enduring value that offers hope to humanity, and a compelling portrait of the beauty and appeal of the faith of 1.2 billion people.

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Library of Islam

Sufi Essays

(Seyyed Hossein NASR)

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The author combines his research into Sufi doctrine and history with a rich account of the spiritual and metaphysical significance of Sufism as a living tradition.

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Routledge

History of Islamic Philosophy

(Seyyed Hossein NASR, Oliver LEAMAN - Editors)

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Islamic philosophy has often been treated as being largely of historical interest, belonging to the history of ideas rather than to philosophical study. This volume successfully overturns that view. Emphasizing the living nature and rich diversity of the subject, it examines the main thinkers and schools of thought, discusses the key concepts of Islamic philosophy and covers a vast geographical area. Now available in paperback, this indispensable reference tool includes a comprehensive bibliography and an extensive index.

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192 pages

Aperture

Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant

The Holiest Cities of Islam

(Seyyed Hossein NASR)

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Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University, has contributed an essay explaining the history and significance of the two cities. "Mecca and its twin city Medina flourish as the heart and sacred Center of the Islamic universe and will continue to do so as long as there are men and women who accept the truth of Lailaha illa'Llah and Muhammadun rasul Allah," he writes.

Nomachi has worked for National Geographic and Life, and his pictures have the information-packed clarity one might expect. There are fascinating images: literally hundreds of thousands of white-robed believers circling the Ka'bah, Mecca's sacred center; men ritually shaving one another's heads; tired families fasting; small children praying. Nomachi's pictures are oddly cool, but they convey the all-encompassing nature of the faith. Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant will be especially thrilling to those Muslims still planning their pilgrimage.

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Mecca and Medina, two ancient cities in present-day Saudi Arabia, are sacred to all followers of Islam, one quarter of the world’s population. The distinguished Japanese photographer Ali Kazuyoshi Nomachi, a convert to the Muslim faith, was given unprecedented access to both cities, including Medina’s Mosque of the Prophet and Mecca’s sacred center, the Ka'bah, the remarkable and beautiful building to which more than a million pilgrims travel every year during the holy month of Ramadan.

Nomachi’s rich color images include views of the teeming crowds making their annual pilgrimage, or hajj; details of extraordinary Islamic architecture; portraits of faithful worshippers; and aerial and ground-level photographs of desert areas nearby.

Accompanying the photographs and numerous archival illustrations, Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr's text forms a valuable guide to the spiritual and historical foundations of the Muslim faith.

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Kazi Publications

Islamic Science

An Illustrated Study

(Seyyed Hossein NASR)

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This is the first illustrated study of the whole of Islamic science ever undertaken. Basing himself on the traditional Islamic concept of science and its transmission and classification, the author discusses various branches of the Islamic sciences. The author then turns to the application of the Islamic sciences to such domains as medicine, pharmacology, alchemy, agriculture, and various forms of technology. In the final section of the work, the author discusses the role of the human being in the universe. The book combines an account of the morphology and brief history of the various sciences with illustrations drawn from sources spread throughout the Islmaic world. Contains over 160 color photographs.

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Kazi Publications

Man and Nature

The Spiritual Crisis in Modern Man

(Seyyed Hossein NASR)

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This work from one of the world's leading Islamic thinkers is a spiritual tour de force which explores the relationship between the human being and nature as found in many religious traditions, particularly its Sufi dimension. The author stresses the importance of a greater awareness of the origins of both the human being and nature as a means of righting the imbalance that exists in our deepest selves and in our environment.

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Kazi Publications

Love, Virtues and Commandments

An Interfaith Perspective

(Seyyed Hossein NASR)

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A wonderful textual comparison on moral issues from the Old and New Testament and the Quran along with sayings of Prophets, Messengers and Saints.

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Herder & Herder

Islamic Spirituality

Foundations

(Seyyed Hossein NASR)

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Sufi authors have written some of the most moving spiritual literature in the world, but getting a handle on it all can be a chore. Where were they coming from? What were their issues? What was their impact? Seventeen scholars have come together to answer these and other questions in Islamic Spirituality: Foundations. Of course, the seeds of Sufism are to be found in the core of Islam--the Quran, the Hadith, pilgrimage, prayer, and such. In Islamic Spirituality: Foundations, the development of these as aspects of an inner tradition are explored in depth as a jumping-off point for talking about the history, practices, and beliefs of the Sufi tradition itself. The assumption is that there is a spiritual side to Islam and that it is most fully developed in Sufi orders and writings. After an extensive treatment of the spirituality inherent in Islam, the authors give an overview of the rise of Sufism. Details of the various sects and literature of Sufism are left for the companion volume, Islamic Spirituality - Manifestations. While the academic language of these scholars can cause mental roadblocks at times, the extra effort is balanced by the wealth of knowledge that they offer.

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Herder & Herder

Islamic Spirituality

Manifestations

(Seyyed Hossein NASR)

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State University of New York Press

An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines

(Seyyed Hossein NASR)

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Islamic Texts Society

A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World

(Seyyed Hossein NASR)

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A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World, by one of Islam's greatest contemporary scholars, was written specifically for Muslims, and in particular young Muslims, urging them to become familiar with their religion and to gain an understanding of the modern world from the Islamic point of view in order to respond positively to its challenges. This guide, the first of its kind in any language, presents an exposition of the teachings of Islam as revealed in the Qur'an, explained in the hadith and Sunna of the Prophet and commented upon by Muslim scholars and thinkers, as well as outlining the Western religious and intellectual tradition.

  About the author

Seyyed Hossein Nasr was born in Teheran to a family of traditional scholars and physicians. After receiving his early education in Iran, he went to America where he studied physics, and the history of science and philosophy at M.I.T. and Harvard where he received his doctorate. Nasr was Professor at Teheran University and founder and first President of the Iranian Academy of Philosophy. He is currently Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University and author of over twenty books including Science and Civilisation in Islam, published by the Islamic Texts Society.

  Contents

Introduction
Part One: The Message of Islam
Part Two: The Nature of the Modern World
Part Three: Epilogue - Responding to Modern Challenges
Index

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Kazi Publications

Muhammad

Man of God

(Seyyed Hossein NASR)

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320 pages

Oxford University

Religion & the Order of Nature

The 1994 Cadbury Lectures at the University of Birmingham

(Seyyed Hossein NASR)

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The current ecological crisis is a matter of urgent global concern, with solutions being sought on many fronts. In this book, Seyyed Hossein Nasr argues that the devastation of our world has been exacerbated, if not actually caused, by the reductionist view of nature that has been advanced by modern secular science. What is needed, he believes, is the recovery of the truth to which the great, enduring religions all attest; namely that nature is sacred. Nasr traces the historical process through which Western civilization moved away from the idea of nature as sacred and embraced a world view which sees humans as alienated from nature and nature itself as a machine to be dominated and manipulated by humans. His goal is to negate the totalitarian claims of modern science and to re-open the way to the religious view of the order of nature, developed over centuries in the cosmologies and sacred sciences of the great traditions. Each tradition, Nasr shows, has a wealth of knowledge and experience concerning the order of nature. The resuscitation of this knowledge, he argues, would allow religions all over the globe to enrich each other and cooperate to heal the wounds inflicted upon the Earth.

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Caravan Books

Three Muslim Sages

Avicenna, Suhrawardi, Ibn Arabi

(Seyyed Hossein NASR)

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Islamic Texts Society

Science and Civilization in Islam

(Seyyed Hossein NASR)

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This is the first one-volume work in English to deal with every branch of Islamic science and to approach it not from the Western viewpoint but as it is understood by the Muslims themselves. Islamic science, known to the West principally for its influence on the development of European scientific thought, occupied a central position within the Muslim culture. Through historical and morphological analysis, as well as through excerpts from actual text, Dr. Nasr graphically conveys to Western readers the content and spirit of Islamic science. His introduction surveys the religious, metaphysical, and philosophical concepts of Islam. In succeeding Chapters, the author covers the entire scientific spectrum from cosmography, mathematics and medicine to alchemy and theology, as well as how these fields interact with related schools of thought. Although his primary objective is to examine Islamic science within the context of Islamic civilization, Dr. Nasr also emphasizs the far reaching historical significance of those discoveries and writing which most directly affected the West. On alchemy the author says: "...alchemy in its highest meaning was a spiritual technique for liberating the soul from its material bonds by making it realize that the world is not a series of images and dreams of the individual psyche, but the dream of the Universal or World Soul, in which the human soul must participate. Alchemy was thus a way of awakening man from that illusion which he calls the 'world' by means of the contemplation of the primordial beauty of nature and participation in the dream of the World Soul through the removal of the limitative barrirs of the individual psyche."

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Columbia University Press

Traditional Islam in the Modern World

(Seyyed Hossein NASR)

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Iranian-born Nasr (Islamic studies, George Washington Univ.) distinguishes traditional Islam from both modernist and resurgent "fundamentalist" forms, and explores its encounter with the modern world in such realms as education, science, and urbanism. A reprint of the 1987 cloth edition.

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SUNY Press

Islamic Art and Spirituality

(Seyyed Hossein NASR)

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With remarkable breadth of vision, Seyyed Hossein Nasr reveals for both Western and Muslim readers how each art form in the islamic tradition is based upon a science of nature concerned, not with the outer appearance of things, but with their inner reality. Ranging across calligraphy, painting, architecture, literature, music, and the plastic arts, Nasr penetrates to the inner dimension of Islam and shows the role art plays in the life of individual Muslims and the community as a whole--the role of inspiring the remembrance and contemplation of God.

Once the author establishes art as an aid and support to the spiritual life, he traces the creative act to its ultimate source: inner knowledge and barakah, or grace, which make the crystallization of inner realities in form and space and time possible. Through this knowledge and grace, the author asserts, unity manifests upon the plane of multiplicity, making archetypal realities perceivable by the senses. Through this knowledge and grace, art functions as a ladder for the journey of the soul from the visible to the invisible. How Islamic art leads man to the inner chamber of divine revelation forms the substance of much of this important work.

An especially close look is given to the Sufi tradition within Islam, for its mystical teachers have often clearly demonstrated in their works the spiritual significance of beauty and served as the source of inspiration for art.

By rediscovering the root of art in the Islamic tradition, Seyyed Hossein Nasr opens doors to new dimensions of unity which have seemingly been obscured in recent Western art. In so doing, he extends the significance of this book beyond the Islamic belief system to touch the hearts and creative impulses of readers from all traditions.

  Table of contents

Preface

Introduction

I The Relation between Islamic Art and Islamic Spirituality

Art and the Sacred

II The Spiritual Message of Islamic Calligraphy

III The Principle of Unity and the Sacred Architecture of Islam

IV Sacred Art in Persian Culture

Literature

V Metaphysics, Logic and Poetry in the Orient

VI The Flight of Birds to Union: Meditations upon 'Attar's Mantiq al-tayr

VII Rumi, Supreme Poet and Sage

VIII Rumi and the Sufi Tradition

Music

IX Islam and Music

X The Influence of Sufism on Traditional Persian Music

The Plastic Arts

XI The World of Imagination and the Concept of Space in the Persian Miniature

XII The Significance of the Void in Islamic Art

Postscript

The Spiritual Message of Islamic Art

List of monochrome plates

List of coloured plates Index

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ABC International Groups

Ideals and Realities of Islam

(Seyyed Hossein NASR)

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This is the first of very few English books to treat Islam from its own point of view, from within the tradition. It is written for the Western reader interested in Islam, and also for the Western-educated Muslim. Here, the author seeks to answer from the Islamic standpoint, many of the criticisms brought against the Islamic tradition by the modern West. This book explains, in contemporary language, the truths of Islam as revealed in the Quran, and as followed by generations of devout Muslims. The major aspects of the Islamic tradition are discussed in detail, whilst the traditional Islamic doctrines and beliefs are explained in response to criticisms of modern thought, with frequent comparisons to other world religions. This revised edition of Seyyed Hossein Nasr's seminal work includes an updated, extensive, annotated bibliography for each chapter by both Muslim and Western scholars as welll as a Preface by Titus Burckhardt and a Foreword by Huston Smith. This classical book has been rendered into numerous languages including Indonesian, translated by the present President of Indonesia.

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Islamic Texts Society

Islam and the Plight of Modern Man

(Seyyed Hossein NASR)

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Foundation for Traditional

Poems of the Way

(Seyyed Hossein NASR)

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A collection of forty previously unpublished poems written over the past decade, these verses express a profound nostalgia for our primordial, spiritual home. Author of over thirty books on various aspects of Islamic civilization and the perennial philosophy, Seyyed Hossein Nasr presents in this volume a veritable actualization of Sufism revealed in an elegant language of unsaying.

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SUNY Press

Expectation of the Millennium - Shi'Ism in History

(Seyyed Hossein NASR)

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This is an anthology on the history, politics, and social aspects of Shi'ism including translations of original sources. It examines the historical development of Shi'ism, Shi'i political thought, the status of Shi'i minority communities in the Muslim world, and the life and works of prominent social and political thinkers. The book assesses the extent of the politicization process in Shi'ism in recent years and addresses that important question of the Shi'i attitude towards authority

  Table of contents

Introduction (Seyyed Hossein Nasr)

I. Shi'i Political Doctrines

1. Imamate

2. Messianism and the Mahdi

3. Martyrdom

4. Jihad

II. Authority, Law and Society in Shic ism

5. The Shi'i Principles of Jurisprudence

6. Ruler and Society

7. Political Theory and Practice

8. Economic Theories and Practices

III. Shi'ism in History

9. The Historical Growth of Shi'ism

10. The Buyid Era

11. The Safavid Era

12. The Qajar Era

13. The Pahlavi Era

IV. Shic i Minorities in the Islamic World

14. Shi'ism in the Indian Subcontinent

15. Shi'ism in the Arab World

16. Shi'ism in Turkey

17. Shi'ism in East Africa

V. Shi'ism in the Modern World: Early Political Ideas

18. The Usuli-Akhbari Controversy

19. Early Propagation of Wilayat-i Faqih and Mulla Ahmad Naraqi

20. The Tobacco Rebellion and Haji Mirza Hasan Shirazi

21. The Debates Over the Constitutional Revolution

VI. Shi'ism in the Modern World: Later Political Ideas

22. Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhullah Musawi Khumayni and Wilayat-i Faqih

23. 'Ali Sharic ati

24. Ayatollah Murtada Mutahhari

25. Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Sadr

26. Imam Musa Sadr

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