Hossein Nasr

Seyyed Hossein Nasr ( born April 7, 1933, Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian philosopher.

Life

Seyyed Hossein Nasr was born on April 7, 1933, Tehran. His mother was the granddaughter of Sheikh Fazlollah Nuri, who was hanged in 1909 as opponents of the Constitutional Revolution.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr studied in Tehran, and then in the United States at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Physics at Harvard University history. He returned in 1958 back to Iran. After his return, he took a job as assistant at the Faculty of Literature at the University of Tehran. He was Dean of the Faculty of Literature in 1968. 1972 Nasr was Rector of the University Ariamehr (now Sharif University ). In 1973 he became president, founded under the auspices of Schahbanu Farah Pahlavi Andschoman -e -e Schahanschahi Falsafeh (Royal Academy of Philosophy ). Other founding members were Ehsan Naraghi, Abdolhossein Zarinkoob, Mohsen Foroughi, Nader Nader Pour and Seyyed Jalal Ashtiani. It was later Nasr head of the office of Farah Pahlavi. Nasr welcomed the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran, but soon left Iran in 1984 and professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University in the United States.

Nasr believes that Western values ​​for Iran were meaningless. Instead, he holds Islamic values ​​and Islamic philosophy for Iran for groundbreaking. Nasr rejects modernity and keeps the materialistic West for backward spiritually:

Nasr has written more than 50 books and 500 articles in Persian, English, Arabic, and French on Islam and Sufism.

Miscellaneous

He was one of the 138 signatories of the open letter A Common Word between Us and You (English A Common Word Between Us and You), the personalities of Islam to "leaders of Christian churches everywhere" (English " Leaders of Christian Churches, everywhere ... " ) submitted (13 October 2007).

Works

German

  • The knowledge and the sacred, München: Diederichs 1990.
  • Ideals and realities of Islam, München: Diederichs 1993.

English

  • Islam and the plight of Modern Man ( 1975)
  • Ideals and Realities of Islam (1975 )
  • An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines (1978 )
  • Living Sufism (1980 )
  • Knowledge and the Sacred (1981 )
  • Islamic Life and Thought (1981 )
  • Islamic Art and Spirituality ( 1981)
  • Sufi Essays (1991 )
  • The Need for a Sacred Science (1993 )
  • Religion and the Order of Nature ( 1996)
  • Man and Nature: The Spiritual Crisis in Modern Man (1997)
  • The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam 's Mystical Tradition ( 2007)
  • Frithjof Schuon The Essential: Selected and Edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, ISBN 0-941532-92-5.
  • Three Muslim Sages (His first major book dedicated to Frithjof Schuon Which is )
  • An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines, ISBN 0-7914-1516-3.
  • Science and Civilization in Islam, ISBN 1-930637-15-2.
  • Islamic Science: An Illustrated Study, ISBN 1-56744-312-5.
  • Man and Nature, ISBN 1-871031-65-6.
  • Religion and the Order of Nature, ISBN 0-19-510274-6.
  • The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values ​​for Humanity, ISBN 0-06-009924-0.
  • Ideals and Realities of Islam
  • Beacon of Knowledge - Essays in Honor of Seyyed Hossein Nasr ( Fons Vitae books) 2003, ISBN 1-887752-56-0.
  • History of Islamic Philosophy, 3 volumes, Routledge, London 2003, ISBN 0-415-05667-5.
  • Islamic Philosophy from its Origin to the Present: Philosophy in the Land of Prophecy, ISBN 0-7914-6799-6.
  • The Essential Seyyed Hossein Nasr ( World Wisdom ) ISBN 978-1-933316-38-3.
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