An Introduction To Islamic Cosmological Doctrines

Author : Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791415155

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An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines by Seyyed Hossein Nasr Pdf

This is the only book to deal with classical Islamic cosmology as it was formulated by the Ikhwan al-S'afa al Biruni and Ibn Sina during the tenth and eleventh centuries. These figures influenced all the later centuries of Islamic history and in fact created the cosmological framework within which all later scientific activity in the Islamic world was carried out--the enduring image of the cosmos within which Muslims have lived during the past millennium. Nasr writes from within the Islamic tradition and demonstrates how, based on the teachings of the Quran and the Prophet, the figures treated in this work integrated elements drawn from various ancient schools of philosophy and the sciences. This book is unique in its treatment of classical Islamic cosmology as seen from within the Islamic world-view and provides a key for understanding of traditional Islamic thought. -- Back cover.

Author : Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Islam
ISBN : 0674461509

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An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines by Seyyed Hossein Nasr Pdf

Author : Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Avicenna, 980?-1037
ISBN : OCLC:959758173

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An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines : Conceptions of Nature and Methods Used for Its Study by the Ikhwan Al-Safa by Seyyed Hossein Nasr Pdf

Author : Abdulaziz Abdulhussein Sachedina,Associate Professor of Religious Studies Abdulaziz Abdulhussein Sachedina
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0873954424

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Islamic Messianism by Abdulaziz Abdulhussein Sachedina,Associate Professor of Religious Studies Abdulaziz Abdulhussein Sachedina Pdf

The first comprehensive study of the idea of the Mahdi, or divinely guided messianic leader.

Author : Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135798857

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The Need For a Sacred Science by Seyyed Hossein Nasr Pdf

The meaning of a science rooted in the sacred, its contrast to modern science and its pertinence to us today.

Author : Ian Richard Netton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136102745

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Allah Transcendent by Ian Richard Netton Pdf

Examines the role of God in medieval Islamic philosophy and theology in a new and exciting way. Renouncing the traditional chronological method of considering Islamic philosophy, Netton uses modern literary modes of criticism derived from structuralism, post-structuralism and semiotics.

Author : Ahmad, Maqbul,Al-Hassan, Ahmad Youssef,Iskandar, Albert Z.,UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231038303

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The different aspects of islamic culture by Ahmad, Maqbul,Al-Hassan, Ahmad Youssef,Iskandar, Albert Z.,UNESCO Pdf

Research into Islamic science and technology is still in is early stages, but there is now sufficient material available for a preliminary study. Volume IV is intended to fill a gap which deserves a major multi-volume work. Part I is a review of the history of science in Islam. It deals with the contribution of Islamic civilization to mathematics, astronomy, and physics, which have long been acknowledged, but also advances made by Muslim scientitsts in the fields of cosmology, geology and mineralogy, zoology, veterinary science and botany.

Author : David J. Brewer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725258488

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Faith Encounters of the Third Kind by David J. Brewer Pdf

Interreligious dialogue that strives for both hospitality and honest discussion of difference! Is it possible to have both? Is it possible for religious traditions to engage one another in a spirit of humility, while also working together toward mutual descriptions of God and the world? This is the goal of this book, to find points at which each of the religious traditions are vulnerable and open enough to listen to each other and to help each other toward a shared description of reality. If you share these concerns--concerns for interfaith dialogue as well as for deeply held notions of conviction and truth--then the invitation is open for mutual constructive engagement.

Author : William C. Chittick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781780744667

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Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul by William C. Chittick Pdf

With academic courses either encouraging commercialism, or cultivating zealots, Chittick states that it is impossible to understand classical Islamic texts without the years of contemplative study that are anathema to the modern education system. Insisting upon a return to the ways of the ancient wisdom tradition, which saw the quest for knowledge of the soul, the world, and God as a unifying spiritual discipline, Chittick maintains that the study of Islamic texts cannot be treated separately from self-understanding. Fascinating, radical, and a true challenge to modern trends in academic study, this book opens a new debate in Islamic thought.

Author : Christoph Böttigheimer,Konstantin Kamp
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110748284

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The Concept of Body in Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Christoph Böttigheimer,Konstantin Kamp Pdf

This volume of the series "Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses" investigates the roots of the concept of "body" in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The Body and being a created being stands in the focus of all the thre major monotheistic faiths. It is not just by the christian idea of man's likeness to God that indicates that the human body is a central object of religious thinking, both culturally and theologically charged. Here, the body stands in the crossfire of terms like "pure" and "unpure", "sacred" and "profane", "male" and "femal". And besides the theological controversies, everyday experiences like sexuality, gender equality and how to dispose of the own body (and that of others) are undoubtly recent and highly contentious discussion points in the debate of a peaceful living together of different religions and cultures. The volume presents the concept of "body" in its different aspects as anchored in the traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It unfolds commonalities and differences between the three monotheistic religions as well as the manifold discourses about peace within these three traditions. The book offers fundamental knowledge about the specific understanding of the body in each one of these traditions, their interdependencies and their relationship to secular world views.

Author : T.O. Shanavas
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781450046299

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Creation And/Or Evolution: an Islamic Perspective by T.O. Shanavas Pdf

In "Creation AND/OR Evolution: An Islamic Perspective", T.O. Shanavas describes an Islamic theory of creation that is not incompatible with evolution. He accomplishes this by weaving together insights from modern science, the Quran, and pre-Renaissance Muslim history. He proposes that evolution is an intelligent design created by a higher power to manifest His omniscience, supremacy, and grace in a universe constructed with creatures with limited free will. This book is an important contribution to the ongoing debate between creationism and evolution.

Author : John F. Haught
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000-03-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1589014111

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Science and Religion in Search of Cosmic Purpose by John F. Haught Pdf

Many scientists today think of the universe as essentially purposeless. Likewise, modern and postmodern philosophers have often been suspicious of any religious claims that the natural world embodies and eternal meaning or teleology. Not all scientific thinkers subscribe to this cosmic pessimism, however, and some would even argue that contemporary knowledge is consistent with a religious sense of cosmic purpose. This stimulating book offers candid reflections on the question of cosmic purpose written both by prominent scientists and by scholars representing the world's religious traditions. Examining the issue from a wide variety of perspectives, this is the only current book to deal with cosmic purpose from an interreligious and interdisciplinary perspective. Here scientists such as physicist Andrei Linde and biologist Francisco Ayala come face to face with Islamic scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Hindu philosopher Anindita Niyogi Balslev, and others. They examine such perplexing issues as the possible existence of multiple universes and the implications of seemingly purposive features in life. The contributions address the question of whether a religiously-based notion of a purposeful cosmos is consistent with the latest scientific understanding of nature, and whether theology can affirm the presence of divine action without contradicting science. These essays will challenge readers to ponder their own place in the cosmos as they seek to interpret the visions of the world's great spiritual traditions in the light of natural science.

Author : Mohammed Rustom
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438443423

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The Triumph of Mercy by Mohammed Rustom Pdf

Winner of the 21st International Book of the Year Prize in Iran This book investigates the convergence of philosophy, scriptural exegesis, and mysticism in the thought of the celebrated Islamic philosopher Mullā Ṣadrā (d. 1050/1640). Through a careful presentation of the theoretical and practical dimensions of Ṣadrā's Qur'ānic hermeneutics, Mohammed Rustom highlights the manner in which Ṣadrā offers a penetrating metaphysical commentary upon the Fātiḥa, the chapter of the Qur'ān that occupies central importance in Muslim daily life. Engaging such medieval intellectual giants as Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606/1210) and Ibn 'Arabī (d. 638/1240) on the one hand, and the wider disciplines of philosophy, theology, Sufism, and Qur'ānic exegesis on the other, Ṣadrā's commentary upon the Fātiḥa provides him with the opportunity to modify and recast many of his philosophical positions within a scripture-based framework. He thereby reveals himself to be a profound religious thinker who, among other things, argues for the salvation of all human beings in the afterlife.

Author : Quintan Wiktorowicz
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791448355

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The Management of Islamic Activism by Quintan Wiktorowicz Pdf

Shows how the laws governing civil society are used to regulate Islamic activism in Jordan.

Author : Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1989-07-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438414225

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Knowledge and the Sacred by Seyyed Hossein Nasr Pdf