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Traditional Islam in the Modern World – Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Traditional Islam in the Modern World (1987)

‘The World of Imagination’ and the Concept of Space in the Persian Miniature – Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Religious Art, Traditional Art, Sacred Art: Some Reflections and Definitions – Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The Divine Word in Islamic Art – Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The Divine Word and Islamic Art The Word of Allah is the origin and principle of Islamic art par excellence. Just as the Word descends from the unseen and unmanifest order to the visible and material realm, so too does the art that is based upon it descend from the ‘formless’ sonoral level to the […]

Islam and the Question of Violence – Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The Spiritual Significance of Jihad – By Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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 […]

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 […]

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