“In the Islamic world itself also there is a great crisis in he modern established universities precisely because the systems from the… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
In Islam, we believe that it is God himself who is the ultimate guide - Al Hadi - one of the names… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The Islamic world is suffering not only because of external oppression but also because of the loss of its own dignity, of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Without Sufism, Islam would not have spread into two thirds of what we call the Islamic world. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Al-Hallaj has a special destiny. He came at a time when worldliness, the luxury, were inundating the Islamic world. His function was… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The Islamic world doesn't stop in the Arab world or Persia. There is the whole Turkic world, the Central Asian world, South… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
There are millions and millions of Sufis who have existed in Islamic history and have the deepest impact on every aspect of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were "fine" or "industrial" or "minor".… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Sufism has always had the function of purifying Islamic ethics and that fasting and tazkiya is like lighting a lamp. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The significance of the vast Islamic scientific tradition for Muslims and especially for young Muslims today is not only that it gives… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The life of Islamic philosophy did not terminate with Ibn Rushd nearly eight hundred years ago, as thought by Western scholarship for… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
From it genesis twelve hundred years ago to today, Islamic philosophy (al-hikmah; al-falsafah) has been one of the major intellectual traditions within… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Jalaluddin Rumi is completely rooted in Islamic teachings of Quran. He was a great scholar, he belonged to a madrassa, and he… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Tariqah [The Spiritual Path] without the Sharia [Islamic Law] is like having a pistachio tree without the shell. Or a walnut, a… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The love of God is not only the highest form of love, but also in reality the only love of which all… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Sufis have always been those that have tried to purify the ethics of Islam and society. And they don't have their hands… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The Islamic world is not only suffering from the American occupation of Palestine and Iraq, it's also suffering from the unbelievable corruption… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
There is an idea that you can take the spiritual teachings of a religion outside of a religion and practice them; these ideas are… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“In the Islamic world itself also there is a great crisis in he modern established universities precisely because the systems from the West have… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Muhammad was the exemplar ruler, exemplar father, exemplar warrior, and once you have a family, you have contentions, you have problems, human problems, and… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Muhammad sets the model for being a good statesman. He also sets the model for being a good warrior, for chivalry, of nobility, of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“For anyone who understood the essence of modernism based on and originating in the secularizing and humanistic tendencies of the European Renaissance, it was… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
In fact, the machine doesn't have the consciousness we have, the free will that we have, and to surrender one's free will, not in… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
In Islam, we believe that it is God himself who is the ultimate guide - Al Hadi - one of the names of God… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Without the withering criticism by nominalism, medieval Christian philosophy and theology would not have relinquished their claim to the role of knowledge in discovering… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The Islamic world is suffering not only because of external oppression but also because of the loss of its own dignity, of its own… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image