Three Muslim Sages: Avicenna-Suhrawardi-Ibn Arabi book pdf download

Author: Seyyed Hossein Nasr

About the Author: Seyyed Hossein Nasr was born on (April 7, 1933 AD) in the Iranian capital, Tehran, Iran. He is a contemporary Islamic philosopher who works as a professor in the Department of Islamic Studies at George Washington University. He is a prominent Iranian philosopher, and has many books and articles. [7] Seyyed Hossein Nasr is famous in the field of comparative religion, Sufism, philosophy of science and metaphysics. His philosophy includes a strong criticism and rejection of modernity and its negative impact on the human spirit.

Three Muslim Sages: Avicenna-Suhrawardi-Ibn Arabi book pdf download By Seyyed Hossein Nasr

THE “golden age, of Islam, insofar as the intensity of the religious and spiritual life and the realization of its ideals are concerned, must be identified with the lifetime of the Prophet Mul}.ammad- upon whom be peace- and the first Muslim community at Medina. But just as the seed sown in the ground grows into a tree and finally bears fruit only after the passage of time and. the gaining of nourishment from a suitable soil, so did the tree of Islamic civilization bear its intellectual and artistic fruits several centuries after its incep- tion, during which it was nourished by the legacy of the previous civilizations to which Islam became the heir. The arts and sciences, as well as philosophy and metaphysics, reached their zenith of formal perfection and became fully articulated only after Muslim society had become completely consolidated, and only after the tenets of the Islamic revela- tion had been realized in concrete and tangible forms so as to make the new civilization distinctly Islamic, even when elements of non-Islamic origin had been incorporated into it.

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