Islam and Secularism – Syed Muhammad Naquib Al – Attas
Abstract:
“About ten years ago* the influential Christian philosopher and one regarded by Christians as among the fore most of this century, Jacques Maritain, described how Christianity and the Western world were going through a grave crisis brought about by contemporary events arising out of the experience and understanding and interpretation of life in the urban civilization as manifested in the trend of neo-modernist thought which emerged from among the Christians themselves and the intellectuals philosophers, theologians, poets, novelists, writers, artists“
Al-Attas, Islam And SecularismSam’ani on the Secret of Love in Adam’s Felicitous Sin -William C. Chittick
Abstract:
“does not follow the pattern of Arabic books in this common genre, for he avoids linguistic analysis and theological abstractions and instead spends most of his time addressing the repercussions of the divine names in the human soul. He makes constant use of imagistic language, poetry, anecdotes, stories of the prophets, accounts of Muhammad and his Companions, and sayings of the great Sufi teachers. The result is one of the most wide-ranging expositions of Islamic spirituality ever written. The book and its author, however,were almost completely forgotten until the text was published in 1989.In 1992 I introduced a few of its teachings about Adam at a conference on Persian Sufism organized by our late and dear friend Leonard Lewisohn, and later I quoted many excerpts in my study of love”…..
Samani_on_the_Secret_of_Love_in_Adams_FeThe Mosque The Heart of Submission – Rusmir Mahmutćehajić
Abstract:
This is a remarkable little book. As I read it through I was astonished
at Dr. Mahmutc´ehajic´’s ability to reformulate classical positions of
Muslim thinkers and spiritual teachers in fresh and original ways. Despite
his use of a nondenominational language, he is completely in
line with the Islamic intellectual tradition founded by the Qur’an and
the Prophet and echoed down through the ages in the writings of………
‘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?.
The Question of Theodicies by Frithjof Schuon
“God does what He wills”: this affirmation in the Koran all too readily evokes the unfortunate image of a more or less arbitrary Divine Will, when in fact it simply means that man is in general
ignorant of the motives of that Will, particularly with regard to the multiple contradictions the world displays. According to theologians, God does not “will” sin since He forbids it, but He does “will” it since sin is possible and nothing happens without God “willing” it or even “creating” it; otherwise one would have to admit, it appears, that God is unable to prevent what……….
The Prayer of the Heart in Hesychasm and Sufism
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 Lâhïjï, Sharfa-i gulshan-i räz