Seyyed Nasr: 13 books
Maintaining the Sacred Center
The Bosnian City of Stolac
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
In his fascinating new book, Bosnian academic and former statesman, Rusmir Mahmutcehajic, explores how men and women traditionally ordered their communities, architecture, and habits of life to reflect the divine order, and how this order is coming under attack in an increasingly secularized modern world....
The Heart of Islam
Enduring Values for Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
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...
Islam in the Modern World
Challenged by the West, Threatened by Fundamentalism, Keeping Faith with Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
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....
by Mehdi Amin Razavi Aminrazavi, Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This volume gathers together the numerous essays by the Iranian metaphysician and ontologist, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, on Islamic philosophers and the intricate relationship between Persian culture and its philosophical schools. Brought together into a single volume for the first time, these essays span...
Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant
The Holiest Cities of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant is an unprecedented photographic exploration of the holiest cities of Islam and the Hajj, or annual pilgrimage during Ramadan when more than a million faithful journey to Mecca's Great Mosque to commemorate the first revelation of the Qur'an (Koran).
This...
The Garden of Truth
Knowledge, Love, and Action
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The headlines are filled with the politics of Islam, but there is another side to the world's fastest-growing religion. Sufism is the poetry and mysticism of Islam. This mystical movement from the early ninth century rejects worship motivated by the desire for heavenly reward or the fear of punishment,...
Islam
Religion, History, and Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
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...
Mecca the Blessed & Medina the Radiant (Bilingual)
The Holiest Cities of Islam (Bilingual Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant is an unprecedented photographic exploration of the most holy cities of Islam and the Hajj, or annual pilgrimage during Ramadan, when more than a million faithful journey to Mecca's Great Mosque to commemorate the first revelation of the Qur'an (Koran).
This...
The Study Quran
A New Translation and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
An accessible and accurate translation of the Quran that offers a rigorous analysis of its theological, metaphysical, historical, and geographical teachings and backgrounds, and includes extensive study notes, special introductions by experts in the field, and is edited by a top modern Islamic scholar,...
Sufism
Veil and Quintessence A New Translation with Selected Letters
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2006
This new edition of Frithjof Schuon's important work, Sufism: Veil and Quintessence, is a fully revised translation from the French original and has an extensive Appendix containing previously unpublished letters and other private writings.
by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
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 author has brought together studies dealing with the practical as well as intellectual aspects of Islam in both their historical and contemporary reality....
by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2005
The meaning of a science rooted in the sacred, its contrast to modern science and its pertinence to us today.
Islamic Spirituality
Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Originally published 1987.
The first part of the volume is concerned with "The Roots of the Islamic Tradition and Spirituality". These are seen to include the Qu’ran as the central theophany of Islam, the Prophet who received the word of God and made it known to mankind and the...