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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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Be Cleansed of Shallow Idolatries: Shaikh Kabir Helminski

Shaikh Kabir Helminski offers a sohbet (discourse & discussion) on July’s theme of the month: “Be cleansed of shallow idolatries; affirm the Real. Ya Haqq.

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Kabir Helminski
2019
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Holistic Islam: Sufism, Transformation, and the Needs of Our Time

Islam once gave birth to a great civilization that respected religious diversity, freedom of conscience, and scientific thought, and Islamic knowledge contributed to the birth of humanism in the Renaissance.

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Kabir Helminski
2017
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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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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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Sufi Essays

The author combines his research into Sufi doctrine and history with a rich account of the spiritual and metaphysical significance of Sufism as a living tradition.

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr
1999
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Islamic Art and Spirituality

With remarkable breadth of vision, Seyyed Hossein Nasr reveals for both Western and Muslim readers how each art form in the islamic tradition is based upon a science of nature concerned, not with the outer appearance of things, but with their inner reality.

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr
1987
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The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam’s Mystical Tradition

The headlines are filled with the politics of Islam, but there is another side to the world’s fastest-growing religion. Sufism is the poetry and mysticism of Islam.

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr
2008
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Spiritual Gems of Islam: Insights & Practices from the Qur'an, Hadith, Rumi & Muslim Teaching Stories to Enlighten the Heart & Mind

Refine your heart and mind with the wisdom of Islamic spirituality "To live a meaningful life―one that brings us joy, contentment and fulfillment―we have to do the inner spiritual work of becoming a more complete human being.

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Imam Jamal Rahman
2013
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