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In search of the sacred :

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a conversation with Seyyed Hossein Nasr on his life and thought /

Seyyed Hossein Nasr with Ramin Jahanbegloo ; introduction by Terry Moore.

Santa Barbara, Calif. :

Praeger,

©2010.

1 online resource (xxxiv, 373 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Childhood -- Ancestors -- Early Memories -- Nasr's Father -- A Pneumatic Child -- Traditional and Modern Education: A Synthesis -- Leaving Iran -- Nasr's Mother and Her Family -- Nasr Family Friends and Connections -- The Debate between Modernity and Tradition -- Religious Practices -- Relationship with God -- Muslim Practices -- Memories of Tehran -- Primary Schools -- New Technology -- Cars -- Movies -- Heroes -- Reza Shah -- Gandhi -- Invasion of Allied Forces -- Going to America -- Cairo -- Aboard the Gripsholm -- New York -- The Peddie School Years -- Loss of and Reacquaintance with Persian Culture -- Athletics -- Intellectual Development -- Isolation -- Contacts with Christianity -- The M.I.T. Years -- Intellectual Crisis: Physics or Metaphysics? -- Georgio De Santillana -- Bertrand Russell -- Soul-Searching -- René Guénon -- Leaving Physics -- Discovering the Traditionalists (Coomaraswamy and Schuon) -- Courses at Harvard.

Aryamehr University: Reconciling Modern Technology and Persian Culture -- Building the Isfahan Campus -- Political Problems -- The Question of the Use of Force -- Vocational Decisions -- Mounting Political Tensions in Iran -- The Death of 'Allamah Tabataba'i -- Leaving Iran -- Moving to the United States -- Temple University -- The George Washington University -- Travels in the Islamic World -- Travels in the Western World -- Self-Identity: Muslim, Persian or Global? -- Nostalgia for Iran -- What Is Persian Culture? -- Promethean Man and Pontifical Man -- Persian Joy and Sorrow -- Sacralization of Daily Life -- Architecture and the Modernization of Iranian Cities -- Sacred Architecture in the Modern World -- Persian and Western Poetry -- Sufi Poetry in the West -- Living the Spiritual Life -- Practicing Sufism -- What Is Spirituality? -- Spirituality: Esoteric and Exoteric -- Eso- and Exoterism in Christianity -- Eso- and Exoterism in Islam and Judaism.

Christianity Confronts Other Religions -- Islam in the West -- Islam and Other Religions -- Modernism and Its Effect on Christianity -- Naturalism, Rationalism, and Nominalism -- Other Factors in the Secularization of the West -- Protestantism's Secularizing Influence -- Secular and Sacred Law -- Church and State in America and in the Islamic World -- The Resistance of Islamic Governments to Secularization.

Critiques of Modernism -- Modern Western Critical Thought -- Modernism's Effect on Muslims -- Globilization and Diversity -- Muslims Throughout the World -- Western Images of Islam -- The Arab Conquest -- John the Damascene -- The Middle Ages -- The Renaissance -- The Colonial Period -- The Romantic Era -- Modern Times -- Art -- Traditional Art -- What Is Traditional Art? -- Naturalism -- After Naturalism -- Form -- Utility -- Beauty -- Religious Art and Sacred Art -- The Sacred in the Modern World -- The Meaning of Islamic Art -- Understanding the Sacred Art of Other Religions -- Art and Education -- Traditional Islamic Art -- Master and Apprentice -- Representations of God -- Persian Art -- Unity in Diverse Schools of Islamic Art -- Sufism -- Sufism in the Safavid Period -- Shi'ism and Sufism -- Sufism and Pacifism -- Sufism and Sunnism -- The Imams -- The Source of Sufism -- Interreligious Dialogue -- Sufism and Interreligious Dialogue.

Exoteric Barriers and Esoterism -- Religion's Response to Modernism -- Tradition -- What Is Tradition? -- Modernism -- Tradition's Answer to Historicism -- Descartes' Break from Tradition -- The Waning of the Western Tradition (Preparing the Ground for Descartes) -- Western Philosophy's Dependence on Astronomy -- The Primacy of Philosophy over Economics and Politics -- The Disruption of the Political Hierarchy -- Harmony and Dichotomy between Spiritual and Temporal Authority -- Muslim and Renaissance Interpretations of Greek Political Philosophy -- The Value of Tradition and the Critique of Modernism -- Alternative Paradigm -- Psychology -- Philosophy of Nature -- Controlling Technology -- The Environmental Crisis -- The Sacred -- What Is the Sacred? -- Tradition and the Sacred -- Nature as Sacred -- Science and the Sacred -- Knowledge and the Sacred -- The Multiplicity of Religions -- What Is Modernism? -- Authentic Religions' Opposition to Modernism.

The Harvard Years -- Islamic Studies -- Languages -- Thesis -- Harvard's Widener Library -- Influences and Encounters at Harvard -- Professors -- Paul Tillich -- Authors -- Greek Philosophers -- Medieval Western Philosophy -- Renaissance Philosophers -- Modern Western Philosophers -- Heidegger -- Greatest Influences -- Return to Iran -- Architecture and Sacred Space -- Tehran University -- Famous Students -- Teaching -- Theory of Education -- Studies with Traditional Masters -- 'Assir -- 'Allamah Tabataba'i -- Qazwini -- Other Teachers -- Henry Corbin -- Teaching with Corbin -- Projects with Corbin -- Corbin and Mulla Sadra -- Corbin and Religion -- Corbin and Islamic Philosophy -- Corbin and Heidegger -- Corbin Discovers Islamic Philosophy in Persia -- Corbin and Imamology -- Tabataba'i and Corbin -- Revival of the Islamic Intellectual Tradition -- The Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy.

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An opponent of religious fundamentalism as well as modernist relativism in all their forms, Seyyed Hossein Nasr promulgates a philosophy rooted in a traditional Muslim understanding of the world that respects both nature and human dignity in light of God's sovereignty. His life has been a quest for the sacred and his religious vision has been rooted in the "transcendent unity of religions;" his work an organic whole that covers a plurality of dimensions.

Based on a series of interviews, the book combines traditional autobiography with an exploration of the intellectual and spiritual trajectories of the author's thought during key periods of his life. In doing so, it presents a fascinating panorama, not only of the life and ideas of one man, but also of major events ranging from intellectual life in Iran during the Pahlavi period and the Iranian Revolution to some of the major religious and intellectual debates between Islam and modernism. Nasr writes that his "whole life has been a quest for the sacred." This work connects that quest with some of the most important issues of the day in encounters between Islam and the West. --Book Jacket.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr is one of the preeminent philosophers writing today. Sure to be a key resource for decades to come, In Search of the Sacred: A Conversation with Seyyed Hossein Nasr on His Life and Thought illuminates Nasr's experiences and shares his insights on topics from religion and philosophy to science and the arts.

In search of the sacred.

9780313383243

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein.

Islamic philosophy.

Muslim philosophers, Biography.

Muslim philosophers, Interviews.

Islamic philosophy.

Muslim philosophers.

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein.

Jahanbegloo, Ramin.

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