Science and Civilization in Islam 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.

Science and Civilization in Islam book pdf download By Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Science and Civilization in Islam has remained unsurpassed as the authoritative statement on this subject. With his characteristic breadth of learning, clarity of exposition and insight, Seyyed Hossein Nasr presents here for the first time a full picture of Islamic science, not as a chapter in the history of Western science, but as an integral aspect of Islamic civilisation and the Islamic intellectual tradition. By means of an historical presentation, an analysis of its forms, including the use of passages from the writings of many Muslim scientists and philosophers, the author is able to convey not only a sense of the operative context of Islamic science but he also demonstrates its inter-relatedness with the sapiential wisdom on which it is based. An introductory chapter provides the reader with a necessary orientation to the subject according to the principles of Islam, while subsequent chapters survey the whole spectrum of the individual sciences from cosmology, philosophy, theology to alchemy, physics, mathematics, astronomy, and medicine concluding with a chapter on the gnostic tradition. For this edition, Dr Nasr has written a preface surveying the fields covered in the book since its first appearance in 1968, and has provided a supplement that brings the Bibliography up to date.

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