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Translating Culture Through the Faces of Qatar

By David Belcher — 2021

“In my artwork, I try to show my culture, and if someone asks about something they don’t understand, I will explain.”

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Islam in the Modern World: Challenged by the West, Threatened by Fundamentalism, Keeping Faith with Tradition

The foremost U.S. authority on Islam and, Seyyed Hossein Nasr discusses today’s hot button issues—including holy wars, women’s rights, the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, and the future of Moslems in the Middle East—in this groundbreaking discussion of the fastest-growing religion in the world.

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr
2012
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Happiness and the Pursuit of Happiness - The Islamic Perspective

Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr offers an academic address on the meaning and measure of happiness in the Islamic tradition followed by a panel discussion with Vincent Cornell and Scott Kugle.

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr
2010
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RISTalks: Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr - "Philosophy Matters" at RIS 2012

Seyyed Hossein Nasr speaks on Islamic philosophy.

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr
2012
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Conversations w/Great Minds P1 - Dr. Nasr - The Difference between Shia & Sunni

Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, George Washington University / Nasr Foundation joins Thom Hartmann. Islam - the world's second-biggest religion - is as diverse as the almost 1 point 6 billion people that comprise it. So why do so many Americans only see it as a vehicle for extremism and terrorism?

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr
2014
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Religion, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Sufism and Art--An Introduction (Part 1) by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

This lecture by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, where he delivered the first part of a two part introduction to the essence of perennial philosophy as embedded within the Islamic Tradition, was the keynote address to the two-day event: Intellectuality and Spirituality in the Islamic Tradition--A Prelude to...

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr
2016
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Seyyed Hossein Nasr - Eternal Life is Like What?

How to imagine the experience of eternal life? Would we sense ourselves? How would we feel? Whom would we know? What would we do? What would God do? Living forever seems so absurd, yet eternal life is the promise of almost every religion.

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr
2021
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Expectation of the Millennium: Shi'ism in History

This is an anthology on the history, politics, and social aspects of Shi'ism including translations of original sources.

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Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr, Hamid Dabashi, Seyyed Hossein Nasr
1989
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Islamic Science : An Illustrated Study

This is the first illustrated study of the whole of Islamic science ever undertaken. Basing himself on the traditional Islamic concept of science and its transmission and classification, the author discusses various branches of the Islamic sciences.

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr
2007
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Islamic Life and Thought

This book includes essays dealing with many of the major facets of Islam and Islamic civilization including law and society, the cultural and intellectual life of Islam embracing both the sciences and philosophy, and Sufism.

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr
2001
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Muhammad: Man of God

This short study of the life of the Blessed Prophet of Islam, for high school and above, is neither a new historical analysis nor yet another purely devotional sketch of the earthly career of God's last prophet.

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr
2007
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