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Samsara

2011

Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.

102 min

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Islamic Science : An Illustrated Study

This is the first illustrated study of the whole of Islamic science ever undertaken. Basing himself on the traditional Islamic concept of science and its transmission and classification, the author discusses various branches of the Islamic sciences.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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Man and Nature: The Spiritual Crisis in Modern Man

This work from one of the world's leading Islamic thinkers is a spiritual tour de force which explores the relationship between the human being and nature as found in many religious traditions, particularly its Sufi dimension.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam’s Mystical Tradition

The headlines are filled with the politics of Islam, but there is another side to the world’s fastest-growing religion. Sufism is the poetry and mysticism of Islam.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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Islam in the Modern World: Challenged by the West, Threatened by Fundamentalism, Keeping Faith with Tradition

The foremost U.S. authority on Islam and, Seyyed Hossein Nasr discusses today’s hot button issues—including holy wars, women’s rights, the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, and the future of Moslems in the Middle East—in this groundbreaking discussion of the fastest-growing religion in the world.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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A Religious Nature: Philosopher Seyyed Hossein Nasr on Islam and the Environment

In this interview, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, a university professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University, talks with the Bulletin’s Elisabeth Eaves about Islam and the environment.

Elisabeth Eaves

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Modern Islam and Science: An Article by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

In “Islam and Science,” an article written for the Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science, Nasr attempts to give a broad overview of the relationship of Islam to modern science and technology. He makes some key points regarding to criticism of Western science from an Islamic point a view.

Kristopher A. Nelson

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Rūmī and the Sufi Tradition

Like a majestic peak that dominates the countryside around it near and far, the figure of Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, that supreme Sufi poet of the Persian language, dominates the whole of the later Sufi tradition in the eastern lands of Islam.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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Happiness and the Pursuit of Happiness - The Islamic Perspective

Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr offers an academic address on the meaning and measure of happiness in the Islamic tradition followed by a panel discussion with Vincent Cornell and Scott Kugle.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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RISTalks: Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr - “Changing the Present, Dreaming the Future”

In this talk, Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr will look at the relationship between man and nature and the spiritual crisis that inflicts the world. He will offer his vision for the alleviation of the spiritual crisis through a return to our tradition.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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RISTalks: Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr - "Philosophy Matters" at RIS 2012

Seyyed Hossein Nasr speaks on Islamic philosophy.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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