Sayyed Hossein Nasr b. 1933
Sayyed Hossein Nasr (born 1933) is an Iranian-American philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Islamic Philosophy.
Sayyed Hossein Nasr is an Iranian-American Islamic philosopher, university professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University, and one of the leading living exponents of the perennialist or traditionalist school of religious philosophy. Knowledge and the Sacred, his Gifford Lectures, set out a sweeping critique of modern secular knowledge as a forgetting of the sacred ground of every traditional civilization, while Islamic Philosophy from Its Origin to the Present and his many studies of Mulla Sadra, Suhrawardi, and Ibn Arabi have shaped the contemporary Western reception of the Islamic philosophical tradition. He has also been a leading voice in Islamic environmental philosophy.
Key facts
- Nationality
- Iranian-American
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Islamic Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Sayyed Hossein Nasr:
“Modern man has forgotten that knowledge and the sacred were once one.”
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Attributed to Sayyed Hossein Nasr:
“Tradition is not nostalgia; it is the living transmission of perennial truth.”
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Attributed to Sayyed Hossein Nasr:
“Islamic philosophy did not end with Averroes; in the Persian world it continued and continues still.”
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Attributed to Sayyed Hossein Nasr:
“The recovery of the sacred is the precondition of the recovery of nature.”
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Attributed to Sayyed Hossein Nasr:
“Every authentic civilization is the projection of a metaphysical principle into time.”
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- Sayyed Hossein Nasr is an Iranian-American philosopher of the Contemporary era.
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- Sayyed Hossein Nasr is an Iranian-American Islamic philosopher, university professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University, and one of the leading living exponents of the perennialist or traditionalist school of religious philosophy.
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