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Introduction to Sufism - Belief - Oprah Winfrey Network

2015

Varun Soni, dean of Religious Life at the University of Southern California, shares the basics of Sufism, the mystical branch of Islam that seeks to connect the worshipper to the divine through singing, dancing or artistic expression.

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A Religious Nature: Philosopher Seyyed Hossein Nasr on Islam and the Environment

In this interview, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, a university professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University, talks with the Bulletin’s Elisabeth Eaves about Islam and the environment.

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Elisabeth Eaves
2015
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Modern Islam and Science: An Article by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

In “Islam and Science,” an article written for the Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science, Nasr attempts to give a broad overview of the relationship of Islam to modern science and technology. He makes some key points regarding to criticism of Western science from an Islamic point a view.

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Kristopher A. Nelson
2010
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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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Science & Civilization in Islam

Science and Civilization in Islam has remained unsurpassed as the authoritative statement on this subject.

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr
2003
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Islam: Religion, History, and Civilization

In this informative and clear introduction to the world of Islam, Seyyed Hossein Nasr explores the following topics in depth: •What Is Islam? •The Doctrines and Beliefs of Islam •Islamic Practices and Institutions •The History of Islam •Schools of Islamic Thought •Islam in the...

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr
2002
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The Pen and the Tablet: Works by and about Seyyed Hossein Nasr through His 85th Birthday

Edited with an Introduction and annotations by Muhammad U. Faruque.

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr
2025
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Ideals and Realities of Islam

This is the first of very few English books to treat Islam from its own point of view, from within the tradition. It is written for the Western reader interested in Islam, and also for the Western-educated Muslim.

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr
2025
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