TY - BOOK AU - Nasr,Seyyed Hossein TI - Islamic life and thought SN - 0585061424 AV - BP25 .N27 1981eb U1 - 909/.097671 19 PY - 1981/// CY - Albany PB - State University of New York Press KW - Islam KW - HISTORY KW - World KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - gtt KW - Electronic books N1 - 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; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011 UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=7779 ER -