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Sufi Essays (1972) Islam and the Plight of Modern Man (1975). The Essential Seyyed Hossein Nasr, edited by William Chittick (2007) Islam in the Modern World (2012) As Editor: An Annotated Bibliography of Islamic Science, edited with William Chittick and Peter Zirnis (3 vols., 1975) Isma’ili Contributions to Islamic Culture (1977) The Essential Frithjof Schuon (1986) Shi’ism: Doctrines.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, currently University Professor of Islamic Studies at the George Washington University, Washington D.C. is one of the most important and foremost scholars of Islamic, Religious and Comparative Studies in the world today. Author of over fifty books and five hundred articles which have been translated into several major Islamic, European and Asian languages, Professor Nasr is.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr was born on April 7, 1933 (19 Farvadin 1312 A.H. solar) in Tehran into a family of distinguished scholars and physicians. His father, Seyyed Valiallah, a man of great learning and piety was a physician to the Iranian royal family, as was his father before him. The title Nasr al-atibba’, from which the name “Nasr” meaning “victory” derives was conferred on.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version: Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. Sufi essays. London, G. Allen and Unwin (1972) (OCoLC)647016868: Document Type: Book.
So declares Seyyed Hossein Nasr in this valuable contribution to the LLP series. Against the tide of most Western philosophy, whether analytic or continental, Professor Nasr has consistently argued for a traditionalist view of philosophy that nevertheless remains in intelligent and informed engagement and dialog with the modernist positions he wishes to challenge.
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