Islamic Art and Spirituality
Islamic Art and Spirituality
By Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Islamic Art has been the subject of study by Western scholars since the nineteenth century and by Western-trained
Muslim savants for several decades. It has, moreover, come to receive special attention during the past two or three
decades by the larger public as a distinct category of art. Numerous works have appeared in nearly every European
language on the history, technical formation, social setting, and other aspects of this art. A few books and articles
have been devoted to its spiritual significance and meaning, but these have been few and far between. Except for
the writings of T. Burckhardt, which cast special light upon the intellectual, symbolic, and spiritual dimensions of
Islamic art, there are very few works which look upon Islamic art as the manifestation in the world of forms of the
spiritual realities (al-haqa’iq) of the Islamic revelation itself as coloured by its earthly embodiments……………..
An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines
An Introduction to
Islamic Cosmological
Doctrines
CONCEPTIONS OF NATURE AND METHODS
USED FOR ITS STUDY BY THE
IKHW AN AL-~AFA’, AL-BIRUNI, AND IBN SINA
This study opens up a relatively unexplored, hence unfamiliar,
aspect of Islam. The ~ajority of mo?ern Muslim ration~lists will no
doubt join in chorus with the formalist orthodox theologians to deny
that its subject can be identified with Islam “in any true sense.” But
their perspective is false. The theme of Seyyed Hossein Nasr’s study
is one no less vital than the tracing out of one line in the complex process
by which the Islamic Community gradually discovered its own
nature and habitat…………………………………………..
An_Introduction_to_Islamic_Cosmological_Doctrines
The Male and Female in the Islamic Perspective
The Male and Female in the Islamic Perspective
by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“O Mankind! Lo! We have created you male and female… The noblest among you, in the sight of Allah, is the best in conduct.” (Quran 49:13)
The Male and Female in the Islamic Perspective
Islam and the Environment
The Qur’an addresses not only human beings, but also the cosmos. All creatures participate in Islam. It is much easier to be able to develop an environmental philosophy which will not be incongruent or artificial as if you would add an artificial tail to a donkey. It is part and parcel of the Islamic world view.”
Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Download the CBC Ideas with Paul Kennedy featuring Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Source: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/islam-and-the-environment-1.2914131
Introduction to Metaphysics
Introduction to Metaphysics Part 1: The Supreme Science of Islam
Introduction to Metaphysics Part 2: The nature of reality
Introduction to Metaphysics Part 3: Science
Contemporary Man, between the Rim and the Axis
Come you lost Atoms to your Centre draw,
And be the Eternal Mirror that you saw :
Rays that have wander’d into Darkness wide
Return, and back into your Sun subside.
(Farīd al-Din ‘Attār)
Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr – “Philosophy Matters”
An Introduction to Islamic Philosophy