Return to the Eternal Abode: Sufi Dialogues with Seyyed Hossein Nasr (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9798855800784)

Return to the Eternal Abode is a series of in-depth discussions between Amira El-Zein and Seyyed Hossein Nasr, one of the world's foremost scholars of Islamic, religious, and comparative studies. Each of the six chapters addresses a central theme at the heart of Sufism: creativity, cosmology, the environment, poetry, art, and modernity. Nasr's answers to El-Zein's probing questions offer thought-provoking, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary approaches to these aspects of the Sufi tradition, reflecting a lifetime of scholarship and comfortably synthesizing various sources, philosophies, and traditions, both Islamic and otherwise. The book also sheds light on Nasr's relations to eminent thinkers of the twentieth century, such as Titus Burckhardt, Mircea Eliade, Louis Massignon, and Henry Corbin and provides, in many ways, an accessible synopsis or overview of his entire oeuvre.

Author: Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Amira El-Zein
ISBN-13: 9798855800784
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2025
Pages: 235
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00d