“Without the withering criticism by nominalism, medieval Christian philosophy and theology would not have relinquished their claim to the role of knowledge… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Furthermore, in the 13th/19th century philosophy began to see itself as a complete replacement for religion as one can see in the… — 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
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
“We cannot gain an essential knowledge of man through any method that is based on externalization of man's inner being and the… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Modernism, philosophically speaking, is in a sense the ‘‘worship’’ of time and the transient, a kind of deification of time and becoming… — 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
“Modernism does not mean simply change and newness; it is a particular way of looking at the world, a particular philosophy based… — 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
“To consider Western science simply as a continuation of Islamic science is, therefore, to misunderstand completely both the epistemological foundations of the… — 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
“Modern science was born through the Scientific Revolution in the 11th/17th century at a time when, as we saw earlier, European philosophy… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Even in the physical world, all that cannot be caught in the net of modern science is collectively neglected, and its nonexistence… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“The question, therefore, is not whether one should teach philosophy to Muslim students, but rather what kind or kinds of philosophy should… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Only in the West did a philosophy develop that was not only no longer the love of wisdom but went so far… — 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
