My purpose today is to suggest some of the issues that need to be raised from the side of Islamic thinking in any discussion of “religion and science.” For “religion,” I will keep in view the Islamic intellectual tradition, especially in its later stages, when it achieved a synthetic view……….. Modern Science and the Eclipse […]
In An Essay on Man, the eighteenth-century British poet Alexander Pope offers a succinct formulation of an age-old philosophical doctrine about reality. This doctrine, which Arthur Lovejoy refers to as the “great chain of being,” maintains that existence is hierarchical and organically linked…………….. The Great Chain of Consciousness (Renovatio 1.1, 2017)
SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR The goblet revealing the universe is the heart of the perfeet man; The mirror that reveals the Truth is in reality this heart. The heart is the depository of the treasures of the Divine Mysteries; Whatever you seek in the two worlds, ask the heart and you shall attain it. Shams al-Dïn […]
Abstract: “William Chittick, currently professor of religious studies at the State University of New York (Stony Brook), is an internationally renowned expert on Islamic thought. His contributions to the fields of Sufism and Islamic philosophy have helped paint a clearer picture of the intellectual and spiritual landscape of Islamic civilization from the seventh/thirteenth century onwards. […]
al-Maqasid al-Shariah by Muhammed Hashim Kamali
Purification of the Heart, Translation and Commentary of Imām Mawlūd’s Maṭharat al-Qulūb by Hamza Yusuf
The Real and the Witness, the Metaphysics of the Shahada by Peter Samsel
In the Beginning there was Consciousness by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Vision of Islam by Sachiko Murata and William C. Chittick