ABSTRACT
This volume gathers together the numerous essays by the Iranian metaphysician and ontologist, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, on Islamic philosophers and the intricate relationship between Persian culture and its philosophical schools. Brought together into a single volume for the first time, these essays span four decades of Nasr's prolific and learned scholarship on the development of Islamic philosophy, as well as the general history of Islam, and expound his belief that philosophy is not merely a rational but a sacred activity.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|56 pages
Islamic thought and Persian Culture
chapter 2|18 pages
Cosmography in Pre-Islamic and Islamic Persia
part II|65 pages
Early Islamic Philosophy
part III|49 pages
Suhrawardī and the School of Ishrāq
part IV|64 pages
Philosophers-Poets-Scientists
part V|83 pages
Later Islamic Philosophy
part VI|20 pages
Islamic thought in Modern Iran