Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Review of Nasr 2012
Book Review: Perennialist interpretation of modern Islam
By Muhammad Khan
In The Muslim News
Islam in the Modern World: Challenged by the West, Threatened by Fundamentalism, Keeping Faith with Tradition. By Seyyed Hossein Nasr. New York: HarperCollins. pp472. 2012. PB. $21.99
The author of this book is an Iranian-American academic. He is a University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University and a leading Muslim scholar who has published extensively on different aspects of Islam from a Traditionalist perspective. This book was first published in 2010 and has since been updated and expanded for the benefit of the readers. What is Traditionalism? READ MORE
"In the appendices, the author has provided a detailed but not necessarily a critical assessment of the life and works of Louis Massignon, a French Catholic Islamicist; Henry Corbin, who was also a leading French Islamicist; Rene Guenon, the founder of Perennialism and a French mystical writer; Frithjof Schuon, a Swiss Sufi and prolific writer; Titus Burckhardt, who was also a Swiss Sufi and artist, and Martin Lings, a British Sufi and prominent writer"
By Muhammad Khan
In The Muslim News
Islam in the Modern World: Challenged by the West, Threatened by Fundamentalism, Keeping Faith with Tradition. By Seyyed Hossein Nasr. New York: HarperCollins. pp472. 2012. PB. $21.99
The author of this book is an Iranian-American academic. He is a University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University and a leading Muslim scholar who has published extensively on different aspects of Islam from a Traditionalist perspective. This book was first published in 2010 and has since been updated and expanded for the benefit of the readers. What is Traditionalism? READ MORE
"In the appendices, the author has provided a detailed but not necessarily a critical assessment of the life and works of Louis Massignon, a French Catholic Islamicist; Henry Corbin, who was also a leading French Islamicist; Rene Guenon, the founder of Perennialism and a French mystical writer; Frithjof Schuon, a Swiss Sufi and prolific writer; Titus Burckhardt, who was also a Swiss Sufi and artist, and Martin Lings, a British Sufi and prominent writer"
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