Thursday, December 9, 2010

The Timeless Relevance of Traditional Wisdom - Ali Lakhani

The Timeless Relevance of Traditional Wisdom
By M. Ali Lakhani
Foreword by Reza Shah-Kazemi
Introduction by William Stoddart
World Wisdom Books, 2010

(The author, editor of Sacred Web, has kindly reprinted his reviews of my Corbin Trilogy in this volume.)

Table of Contents:

Part One: The Sacred Web Essays
What is Tradition?
An Introduction to Sacred Web
The Importance of Spiritual Literacy
Pluralism and the Metaphysics of Morality
"What Thirst is For"
Of Detachment and Spiritual Curiosity
Consecrated to the Sublime
“Fundamentalism”: A Metaphysical Perspective
Reclaiming the Center
Understanding “Tradition”
On Faith and Intellect
Umberto Eco, Fascism and Tradition
Towards a Traditional Understanding of Sexuality
On Translation
The Principle of Verticality
The Quest for Moral Certainty
On Cultivating Awareness
What is Normal?
The Problem of Evil
The Secular and the Sacred
“Standing Unshakably in the True”: A Commentary on the Teachings of Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998)
“A Single Principle”: On Faith and Pluralism
Striving for “Wholeness” in the Kali Yuga
The Secularization of Faith in the Modern World
Of “Longing” and “Belonging”
Papers on Metaphysics
Excerpt from “The Metaphysics of Human Governance”
The Metaphysics of Poetic Expression
Section One: Traditional Metaphysics—A Phenomenological Approach
Section Two: What is “Poetry”?
Section Three: “Poiesis” and “Logos”
Section Four: Poetic Vision—Seeing with the Eye of the Heart
Section Five: Poetic Expression—Saying the Unsayable
Section Six: Conclusion
“Neither of the East nor of the West”: Universality in Islam
Education in the light of Tradition: A Metaphysical Perspective
Part Three: Book Reviews
Review of Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul, by William C. Chittick
Review of Conversations with Wendell Berry
Review of the Henry Corbin Trilogy by Tom Cheetham

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