Hossein Nasr

Iranian philosopher, theologian and Islamic scholar (born 1933)

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Born: 1933
Works: 249

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فلسفه درسرزمین نبوت
مجموعۀ مصنفات شيخ اشراق شهاب الدين يحيى سهروردى
جلوه های معنویت درجهان اسلام (طریقه های عرفانی)
Mabdaʻ wa-al-maʻād
The immutable principles of Islam and Western education

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Iran
Active from: 1933

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Islam and the West2004

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Quotes

“Consciousness is itself proof of the primacy of the Spirit or Divine Consciousness of which human consciousness is a reflection and echo.”
“The reduction of the Intellect to reason and the limitation of intelligence to cunning and cleverness in the modern world not only caused sacred knowledge to become inaccessible and to some even meaningless, but it also destroyed that natural theology which in the Christian context represented at least a reflection of knowledge of a sacred order, of the wisdom or sapientia which was the central means of spiritual perfection and deliverance.”
“The testimony of the faith L¯a il¯aha illa’Ll¯ah (There is no divinity but the Divine) is a statement concerning knowledge, not sentiments or the will. It contains the quintessence of metaphysical knowledge concerning the Principle and its manifestation. The Prophet of Islam has said, “Say L¯a il¯aha illa’Ll¯ah and be delivered” referring directly to the sacramental quality of principial knowledge.”
“For Muslims the Islamic Shari'ah, or Divine Law, is the concrete embodiment of the Divine Will as elaborated in the Quran for the followers of Islam; and from the Islamic point of view the scriptures of all divinely revealed religions, each of which possesses its own Shari'ah, have the same function in those religions. For Muslims, who accept the Quran as the Word of God, therefore, following the Divine Law is basic and foundational for the practice of their religion.”
“Islamic science came into being from a wedding between the spirit that issued from the Qur'anic revelation and the existing sciences of various civilizations which Islam inherited and which it transmuted through its spiritual power into a new substance, at once different from and continuous with what had existed before it.”

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Key facts

Born: ( 1933-04-07 ) 7 April 1933 (age 93) , Tehran , Imperial State of Persia
Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( BS ), Harvard University ( MA , PhD )
Era: Contemporary philosophy
Region: Islamic philosophy
School: Perennial philosophy , Sufism
Main interests: Metaphysics , Philosophy of Religion , Philosophy of Science , Sufism , Islamic philosophy
Notable ideas: Scientia sacra Ecotheology Islamic environmentalism Tradition Pontifical and Promethean man Resacralization of nature Desacralization of knowledge Resacralization of knowledge

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Encyclopedic overview

Seyyed Hossein Nasr ( Persian pronunciation: [sejjed̪̥ hoséjn næsɹ]; born April 7, 1933) is an Iranian-American philosopher, theologian, and Islamic scholar. He is a University Professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University.

Born in Tehran, Nasr completed his education in the Imperial State of Iran and the United States, earning a B.A. in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a M.A. in geology and geophysics, and a doctorate in the history of science from Harvard University. He returned to his homeland in 1958, turning down teaching positions at MIT and Harvard, and was appointed a professor of philosophy and Islamic sciences at Tehran University. He held various academic positions in Iran, including vice-chancellor at Tehran University and president of Aryamehr University, and established the Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy at the request of Empress Farah Pahlavi, which soon became one of the most prominent centers of philosophical activity in the Islamic world. During his time in Iran, he studied with several traditional masters of Islamic philosophy and sciences.

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