Entries by Tony Soprano
Al-Tariqah – the Spiritual Path of Islam by Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1965)
Al-Tariqah – the Spiritual Path of Islam by Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1965)
The Garden of Truth by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
The Garden of Truth~ The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islams Mystical Tradition by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Islamic Spirituality: Manifestations edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Islamic Spirituality – Manifestations edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Islamic Spirituality: Foundations edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Islamic Spirituality – Foundations edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
What is Sufism by Martin Lings
What is Sufism by Martin Lings (Shaykh Abu Bakr Siraj al-Din)
SIX FUNDAMENTAL FLAWS IN THE EVOLUTIONIST HYPOTHESIS – William Stoddart
SIX FUNDAMENTAL FLAWS IN THE EVOLUTIONIST HYPOTHESIS (1) Logical The greater cannot come from the lesser. (A biological example: The acorn gives rise to the oak-tree pre- cisely because it already “is” an oak-tree. The acorn is not some nondescript “unicellular organ” or an ameba.) (2) Physical (entropy; the second law of thermodynamics) Complexity tends […]
Psychological Integration and the Religious Outlook by Rama P. Coomaraswamy, M.D.
Psychological Integration and the Religious Outlook by Rama P. Coomaraswamy, M.D. (Presented at the 73rd Annual Meeting of The American Orthopsychiatric Association, May 1–4, 1996 Boston, Mass.) Introduction: Regarding the “self” By philosophical background and training, the majority of health care professionals are prone to view religion and/or spirituality through the eyes of psychiatry. The […]
Recollecting the Spirit of Jihad by Reza Shah-Kazemi
Recollecting the Spirit of Jihad by Reza Shah-Kazemi “When we think how few men of real religion there are, how small the number of defenders and champions of the truth—when one sees ignorant persons imagining that the principle of Islam is hardness, severity, extravagance and barbarity—it is time to repeat these words: Patience is beautiful, […]
Towards a Traditional Understanding of Sexuality by M. Ali Lakhani
Towards a Traditional Understanding of Sexuality by M. Ali Lakhani “In primordial man sexual ecstasy coincides with spiritual ecstasy, it communicates to man an experience of mystical union, a “remembrance” of the Divine Love of which human love is a distant reflection.” Frithjof Schuon “And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall […]
Understanding “Tradition” by M. Ali Lakhani
Understanding “Tradition” by M. Ali Lakhani “Tradition has nothing to do with any “ages”, whether “dark”, “primaeval”, or otherwise. Tradition represents doctrines about first principles, which do not change.” Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Correspondence, 1946 “…there is nothing and can be nothing truly traditional that does not contain some element of a super-human order. This indeed […]