Islamic Life and Thought

Islamic Life and Thought

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Albany : State University of New York Press

Religion and secularism, their meaning and manifestation in Islamic history -- The concept and reality of freedom in Islam and Islamic civilsation -- The Sharī'ah and changing historical conditions -- The immutable principles of Islam and westernised education in the Islamic world -- A typological study of Islamic culture -- A panorama of classical Islamic intellectual life -- The cosmologies of Aristotle and Ibn Sīnā : a comparative study in the light of Islamic doctrines -- The meaning of nature in various perspectives in Islam -- Hermes and Hermetic writings in the Islamic world -- From the alchemy of Jābir to the chemistry of Rāzī -- The study of natural history in the Islamic world -- The pertinence of studying Islamic philosophy today -- Islamic philosophy -- reorientation or re-understanding -- The life, doctrines and significance of Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī (Mullā Ṣadrā).
Mullā Ṣadrā as a source for the history of Islamic philosophy -- Mullā Ṣadrā and the doctrine of the unity of being -- The polarisation of being -- The interior life in Islam -- Contemplation and nature in the perspective of Sufism -- Jesus through the eyes of Islam -- The role of women -- the Islamic view -- Why do Muslims fast? -- Why we should keep the Hijrah calendar.

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