The Islamic Notion of Beauty – William Chittick
Abstract:
Anyone with the vaguest knowledge of Islamic culture knows that it has produced extraordinary works of art and architecture — Persian miniatures,
the Taj Mahal, the Alhambra. Few are aware, however, that this rich artistic heritage is firmly rooted in a worldview that highlights love and beauty…….
Love in Islamic Thought – William C. Chittick
Abstract:
Western studies of Islam have paid relatively little attention to love. Early scholars
were heirs to a long history of European animosity toward this upstart religion and tended to
assume that love was a Christian monopoly. When Muslim writing on love did come to their
attention, they typically considered it peripheral or borrowed, often by classifying it as “Sufi.”
As Carl Ernst explains, “The term Sufi-ism was invented at the end of the eighteenth century, as
an appropriation of those portions of ‘Oriental’ culture that Europeans found attractive.
The Significance of Human Attire
Abstract:
Along with food and shelter, clothing must rank among the most important but least analyzed sites of colonization. And even those works that do examine the connection between colonization and clothing focus almost entirely on the material dimension of dress. Few works, if any, take the necessary additional step of defining clothing as a component of spirituality. Thus, to find a work that addresses both the material and spiritual dimensions of clothing is no easy task. This is partly due to the segregation of knowledge in modern academia, where discussions of spirituality are eschewed by
A Critique of Evolutionary Theory
Abstract:
The essays assembled in this book bring into focus a broad range of criticisms of the modem theory of evolution: logical, mathematical, physical, biological, religious, philosophical, and metaphysical. The arguments presented.
The Male and Female in the Islamic Perspective by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Abstract:
To speak of creation or manifestation is to speak of polarization, of the manifold, of multiplicity
whose first stage is that primordial polarization between the two contending and complementary
principles, which are seen throughout cosmic manifestation and which in human life appear as
the male and female sexes. In relation to the Divine Unity all multiplicity is a veil, and from the
point of view of the Divine Substance everything else is an accident embracing all the
reverberations of the One in the mirror of the many which we call the world, or in fact the many
worlds which at once hide and manifest the One. But from the point of view of the created order….
The Islamic philosophers views on education
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‘God Surrounds all Things’: An Islamic Perspective on the Environment
Abstract:
In attempting to understand the Islamic view of the environment, we have to begin by asking how
Islam has traditionally discussed the concept with which we are dealing. How does one say “environment”
in the language of the Koran?.
Spiritual Chivalry
Abstract:
IT IS NOT POSSIBLE to discuss Islamic spirituality :Without dealing with
that spiritual reality which is called futuwwah in Arabic and jawan mardi
in Persian and which can be rendered into English as “mystical
youth” or spiritual chivalry………………