Hossein Nasr

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Hossein Nasr on October 1, 2007 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Seyyed Hossein Nasr ( Persian سید حسین نصر, Born April 7, 1933 in Tehran , Iran ) is an Iranian professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University and an eminent Islamic philosopher . He is the author of more than 50 books and 500 articles in Persian , English , Arabic and French on Islam and Sufism . Because of his work in the field of traditional Islam and Islamic philosophy, he remains one of the most influential Islamic scholars in the world .

Nasr was the first Muslim to give the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh in 1980/81 entitled Knowledge and the Sacred, and in 2001 a volume in the Library of Living Philosophers was dedicated to him.

Professor Nasr's lectures and writings on the subjects of philosophy, religion, spirituality, music, art, architecture, science, literature, intercultural dialogue and the environment are shaped by the teachings and perspectives of Philosophia perennis . In particular, the influence of Frithjof Schuon and Titus Burckhardt should be mentioned in this context. He also wrote two books of poetry ( Poems of the Way (1999) and The Pilgrimage of Life and the Wisdom of Rumi (2007) ) and was consequently as a polymath called.

Nasr is fluent in Persian, English, French, German , Spanish , Arabic and he has language skills in Italian , Greek and Latin .

Life

Seyyed Hossein Nasr was born in Tehran on April 7, 1933. His mother was the granddaughter of Sheikh Fazlollah Nuri , who was hanged in 1909 as an opponent of the Constitutional Revolution .

Seyyed Hossein Nasr studied physics in Tehran, and then in the USA at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and history at Harvard University . He returned to Iran in 1958. After his return he took on an assistant position at the Faculty of Literature at the University of Tehran. In 1968 he became dean of the Faculty of Literature. 1972 Nasr became rector of Ariamehr University (today: Sharif University) . In 1973 he became president of the Andschoman-e Schahanschahi-e Falsafeh (Royal Academy of Philosophy), founded under the auspices of Shahbanu Farah Pahlavi . Other founding members were Ehsan Naraghi , Abdolhossein Zarinkoob , Mohsen Foroughi, Nader Naderpour and Seyyed Jalal Ashtiani. Nasr later became head of Farah Pahlavi's office. Nasr welcomed the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran but soon left Iran and became Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University in the United States in 1984.

Nasr believes that Western values ​​are meaningless to Iran. Instead, he considers Islamic values ​​and philosophy to be groundbreaking for Iran. Nasr rejects modernity and considers the materialistic West to be spiritually retarded:

"Everything modern and secular that poses a threat to Islam is a wrong path."

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He was one of the 138 signatories of the open letter a common word between us and you ( Engl. A Common Word Between Us and You ), the personalities of Islam to "leaders of Christian churches everywhere" (Engl. "Leaders of Christian Churches, everywhere ... ") (October 13, 2007).

He has been involved in the Catholic-Muslim Forum in Rome since the beginning (2008) and was head of the Muslim delegation at the 3rd seminar of the Catholic-Muslim Forum (2014).

Works

German

  • Knowledge and the Holy, Munich: Diederichs 1990.
  • Ideal and Reality of Islam, Munich: Diederichs 1993.

English

  • Islam and the plight of Modern Man (1975)
  • Ideals and Realities of Islam (1975)
  • Sadr al-Din Shirazi and His Transcendent Theosophy: Background, Life and Works (Teheran 1978) - Online
  • An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines (1978)
  • Living Sufism (1980)
  • Knowledge and the Sacred (1981)
  • Islamic Life and Thought (1981)
  • Islamic Art and Spirituality (1981)
  • Sufi Essays (1991)
  • The Need for a Sacred Science (1993)
  • Religion and the Order of Nature (1996)
  • Man and Nature: The Spiritual Crisis in Modern Man (1997)
  • The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam's Mystical Tradition (2007)
  • The Essential Frithjof Schuon: Selected and Edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, ISBN 0-941532-92-5 .
  • Three Muslim Sages (His first major book which is dedicated to Frithjof Schuon)
  • An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines, ISBN 0-7914-1516-3 .
  • Science and Civilization in Islam, ISBN 1-930637-15-2 .
  • Islamic Science: An Illustrated Study, ISBN 1-56744-312-5 .
  • Man and Nature, ISBN 1-871031-65-6 .
  • Religion and the Order of Nature, ISBN 0-19-510274-6 .
  • The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values ​​for Humanity, ISBN 0-06-009924-0 .
  • Ideals and Realities of Islam
  • Beacon of Knowledge - Essays in Honor of Seyyed Hossein Nasr (Fons Vitae books) 2003, ISBN 1-887752-56-0 .
  • History of Islamic Philosophy, 3 Volumes, Routledge, London 2003, ISBN 0-415-05667-5 .
  • Islamic Philosophy from its Origin to the Present: Philosophy in the Land of Prophecy, ISBN 0-7914-6799-6 .
  • The Essential Seyyed Hossein Nasr (World Wisdom) ISBN 978-1-933316-38-3 .

See also

literature

  • William Chittick (Ed.): The Works of Seyyed Hossein Nasr Through His Fortieth Birthday. University of Utah, Utah 1977.
  • Zailan Moris (Ed.): Knowledge is Light. Essays in Honor of Seyyed Hossein Nasr. ISBN 978-1-930637-01-6 .
  • Mohammad Faghfoory (Ed.): Beacon of Knowledge. Essays in Honor of Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Fons Vitae, Louisville, Kentucky 2003, ISBN 1-887752-56-0 .
  • Lewis Edwin Hahn, Randall E. Auxier, Lucian W. Stone (Eds.): The Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Open Court, ISBN 978-0-8126-9414-7 .
  • Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Ramin Jahanbegloo (Eds.): In Search of the Sacred. Praeger / ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, California 2010, ISBN 978-0-313-38324-3 .
  • Chi-chung (Andy) Yu: Thinking between Islam an the West. The Thoughts of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Bassam Tibi and Tariq Ramadan. Peter Lang, Oxford, Bern (etc.) 2014, ISBN 978-3-0343-0795-6 .

Web links

Texts by SH Nasr

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Seyyed Hossein Nasr (George Washington University)
  2. ↑ Seyyed Hossein Nasr (Google Scholar)
  3. ↑ The Muslim 500 ( memento of the original from June 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / themuslim500.com
  4. ^ Gifford Lectures
  5. ↑ The Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr (VOLUME XXVIII, 2001)
  6. ↑ About Seyyed Hossein Nasr
  7. ^ Egbert Giles Leigh Jr (1998). "Review: Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Religion and the Order of Nature", International Journal for Philosophy of Religion , Volume 44, Number 2, p. 124-126 [124]
  8. ↑ Clivre Irving (1979), Crossroads of civilization: 3000 years of Persian history , Littlehampton Book Services, p. 145
  9. ↑ Ramin Jahanbegloo, Seyyed Hossein Nasr: In Search of the Sacred: A Conversation with Seyyed Hossein Nasr on His Life and Thought. Wesport, Connecticut: Praeger 2010, p. 47.
  10. ↑ manoochehryazdi.blogfa.com ( Memento of the original from March 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.manoochehryazdi.blogfa.com
  11. ↑ acommonword.com: A common word between us and you (summarized short form) (PDF; 186 kB)
  12. ↑ Final Statement of the third Seminar of the "Catholic-Muslim Forum" (Rome, November 11-13, 2014), November 13, 2014 - accessed on May 21, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Nasr, Hossein
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nasr, Seyyed Hossein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian philosopher and Islamic mystic
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran , Iran