Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr is University Professor in Islamic Studies at the George Washington University in Washington DC and prominent Islamic Philosopher.
Lectures
Articles
- The Spiritual and Religious Dimensions of the Environmental Crisis
- Islamic Art and Spirituality
- The World of Imagination and Concept of Space in the Persian Miniature
- Islam and the Question of Violence
- The Male and Female in the Islamic Perspective
- Contemporary Man, Between the Rim and the Axis
- Al-Tariqah – the Spiritual Path of Islam (1965)
- Existence (wujud) & Quiddity (mahiyyah) in Islamic Philosophy (1988)
- God Is Reality – Metaphysical Knowledge and Spiritual Realization (1984)
- Reflections on Islam and Modern Life
- Cosmology
- Islam and the West
Books
As Author:
- An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines (1964)
- Three Muslim Sages: Avicenna—Suhrawardi—Ibn Arabi (1964)
- Ideals and Realities of Islam (1966)
- Science and Civilization in Islam (1968)
- Islamic Studies: Essays on Law and Society, the Sciences, and Philosophy and Sufism (1967)
- The Encounter of Man and Nature: The Spiritual Crisis of Modern Man (1968)
- Sufi Essays (1972)
- Islam and the Plight of Modern Man (1975)
- Islamic Science: An Illustrated Study, with photographs by Roland Michaud (1976)
- Sadr al-Din Shirazi and His Transcendent Theosophy: Background, Life and Works, 2nd edition (1977)
- Knowledge and the Sacred – The Gifford Lectures (1981)
- Islamic Life and Thought (1981)
- Islamic Art and Spirituality (1986)
- Traditional Islam in the Modern World (1987)
- A Young Muslim’s Guide to the Modern World (1993)
- The Need for a Sacred Science (1993)
- The Islamic Intellectual Tradition in Persia, edited by Mehdi Aminrazavi (1994)
- Muhammad Man of God (1995)
- Religion and the Order of Nature: The 1994 Cadbury Lectures at the University of Birmingham (1996)
- Poems of the Way; put to music by Sami Yusuf in Songs of the Way (vol. 1) (1999)
- Islam: Religion, History, and Civilization (2001)
- The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity (2002)
- Islamic Philosophy from its Origin to the Present: Philosophy in the Land of Prophecy (2006)
- The Pilgrimage of Life and the Wisdom of Rumi: Poems and Translations (2007)
- The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam’s Mystical Tradition (2007)
- Islam, Science, Muslims, and Technology: Seyyed Hossein Nasr in Conversation with Muzaffar Iqbal (2007)
- 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, Thought, and Spirituality, edited with Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr and Hamid Dabashi (1988)
- Expectation of the Millennium: Shi’ism in History, edited with Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr and Hamid Dabashi (1989)
- Islamic Spirituality Vol. 1: Foundations, 1987
- Islamic Spirituality Vol. 2: Manifestations, 1990
- Religion of the Heart: Essays Presented to Frithjof Schuon on his Eightieth Birthday, edited with William Stoddart (1991)
- In Quest of the Sacred: The Modern World in the Light of Tradition, edited with Katherine O’Brien (1994)
- History of Islamic Philosophy, edited with Oliver Leaman (1995)
- Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant: The Holiest Cities of Islam, photographs by Kazuyoshi Nomachi; essay by Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1997)
- An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, edited with Mehdi Aminrazavi (5 vols., 1st in 1999)
- The Essential Sophia, edited with Katherine O’Brien (2006)
- The Study Quran (Editor-in-Chief; Caner Dagli, Maria Dakake, and Joseph Lumbard (General editors); Mohammed Rustom (Assistant editor; 2015)