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For Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr, the quest for knowledge, specifically knowledge which enables man to understand the true nature of things and which furthermore, “liberates and delivers him from the fetters and limitations of earthly existence,” has been and continues to be the central concern and determinant of his intellectual life. Brief Biography Seyyed Hossein Nasr was born on April.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr as shaykh Traditionalism,. Then, in the second part, Dickson discusses the responses of ten leading contemporary American Sufi shaykhs, including Seyyed Hossein Nasr of the Maryamiyya, to five topical issues impacting all American Sufis: authority, culture, gender, the relationship between Sufism and Islam, and the participation of non-Muslims. As Dickson notes, it is.
So declares Seyyed Hossein Nasr in this valuable contribution to the LLP series. Against the tide of most Western philosophy, whether analytic or continental, Professor Nasr has consistently argued for a traditionalist view of philosophy that nevertheless remains in intelligent and informed engagement and dialog with the modernist positions he wishes to challenge.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, currently University Professor of Islamic Studies at the George Washington University, Washington D.C. is one of the most important and foremost scholars of Islamic, Religious and Comparative Studies in the world today. Author of over fifty books and five hundred articles which have been translated into several major Islamic, European and Asian languages, Professor Nasr is.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr was born on April 7, 1933 (19 Farvadin 1312 A.H. solar) in Tehran into a family of distinguished scholars and physicians. His father, Seyyed Valiallah, a man of great learning and piety was a physician to the Iranian royal family, as was his father before him. The title Nasr al-atibba’, from which the name “Nasr” meaning “victory” derives was conferred on.
Nasr has written a detailed “Intellectual Autobiography” for the volume dedicated to him in the Library of Living Philosophers, The Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr (Chicago: Open Court, 2001), and most of what is said here about his life derives from that source. The autobiography has been summarized by Zailan Moris in Knowledge is Light: Essays in Honor of Seyyed Hossein Nasr (Chicago.
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