Islamic life and thought /
by Seyyed Hossein Nasr.
- Albany : State University of New York Press, 1981.
- 1 online resource (232 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Religion and secularism, their meaning and manifestation in Islamic history -- The concept and reality of freedom in Islam and Islamic civilsation -- The Shar�i'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 S�in�a : 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 J�abir to the chemistry of R�az�i -- 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 �Sadr al-D�in Sh�ir�az�i (Mull�a �Sadr�a). Mull�a �Sadr�a as a source for the history of Islamic philosophy -- Mull�a �Sadr�a 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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