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by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
With an Introduction by Luce Lopez Baralt

A collection of forty previously unpublished poems written over the past decade, these verses express a profound nostalgia for our primordial, spiritual home. Author of over thirty books on various aspects of Islamic civilization and the perennial philosophy, Seyyed Hossein Nasr presents in this volume a veritable actualization of Sufism revealed in an elegant "language of unsaying".

"His English is terse and contained, yet it is punctuated by surprising tenderness. Nasr takes language to its outermost limits when trying to express the mystery of the unus/ambo and the total eradication of time and space that we experience when the heresy of separation is abolished for a blessed instant. The poems are alive, like an ocean of light; they flow, convince, caress, dance with the reader the eternal dance of Shiva. Nasr's is indeed a 'golden calligraphy' which is able to convey a definite sense of the inapprehensible mystical experience he celebrates with such passion."

From the Introduction by Luce Lopez Baralt

Seyyed Hossein Nasr is a dominant figure in Islamic and traditional studies and has for several decades been recognized as a major interpreter of the Islamic tradition and the philosophia perennis in the West. The range of his scholarship includes work in religious thought, mysticism, the perennial philosophy, science, sacred art, and Sufism. He has done much creative work in the fields of comparative mysticism and comparative philosophy. His publications, translated into more than twenty languages, reflect that broad range of intellectual endeavor. Born in Iran where he received his early education, Dr. Nasr received his doctorate from Harvard University. He is currently university professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University. His works include: Religion and the Order o/'Nature, A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World, Islamic Art and Spirituality, Knowledge and the Sacred, and Man and Nature.

$13.95 Paper. Publication date: 1999.
ISBN 0-9629984-6-x.

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