Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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born

April 07, 1933 in Tehran, Iran

gender

male

website

http://www.nasr.org/

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Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Social Sciences

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr was born on April 7, 1933 (19 Farvadin 1312 A.H. solar) in Tehran into a family of distinguished scholars and physicians. His father, Seyyed Valiallah, a man of great learning and piety, was a physician to the Iranian royal family, as was his father before him. The name "Nasr" which means "victory" was conferred on Professor Nasr's grandfather by the King of Persia. Nasr also comes from a family of Sufis. One of his ancestors was Mulla Seyyed Muhammad Taqi Poshtmashhad, who was a famous saint of Kashan, and his mausoleum which is located next to the tomb of the Safavid king Shah Abbas, is still visited by pilgrims to this day.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr, currently University Professor of Islamic Studies at the George Washington...more Seyyed Hossein Nasr was born on April 7, 1933 (19 Farvadin 1312 A.H. solar) in Tehran into a family of distinguished scholars and physicians. His father, Seyyed Valiallah, a man of great learning and piety, was a physician to the Iranian royal family, as was his father before him. The name "Nasr" which means "victory" was conferred on Professor Nasr's grandfather by the King of Persia. Nasr also comes from a family of Sufis. One of his ancestors was Mulla Seyyed Muhammad Taqi Poshtmashhad, who was a famous saint of Kashan, and his mausoleum which is located next to the tomb of the Safavid king Shah Abbas, is still visited by pilgrims to this day.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr, currently University Professor of Islamic Studies at the George Washington University, Washington D.C. is one of the most important and foremost scholars of Islamic, Religious and Comparative Studies in the world today. Author of over fifty books and five hundred articles which have been translated into several major Islamic, European and Asian languages, Professor Nasr is a well known and highly respected intellectual figure both in the West and the Islamic world. An eloquent speaker with a charismatic presence, Nasr is a much sought after speaker at academic conferences and seminars, university and public lectures and also radio and television programs in his area of expertise. Possessor of an impressive academic and intellectual record, his career as a teacher and scholar spans over four decades.

Professor Nasr began his illustrious teaching career in 1955 when he was still a young and promising, doctoral student at Harvard University. Over the years, he has taught and trained an innumerable number of students who have come from the different parts of the world, and many of whom have become important and prominent scholars in their fields of study.

He has trained different generations of students over the years since 1958 when he was a professor at Tehran University and then, in America since the Iranian revolution in 1979, specifically at Temple University in Philadelphia from 1979 to 1984 and at the George Washington University since 1984 to the present day. The range of subjects and areas of study which Professor Nasr has involved and engaged himself with in his academic career and intellectual life are immense. As demonstrated by his numerous writings, lectures and speeches, Professor Nasr speaks and writes with great authority on a wide variety of subjects, ranging from philosophy to religion to spirituality, to music and art and architecture, to science and literature, to civilizational dialogues and the natural environment.

For Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr, the quest for knowledge, specifically knowledge which enables man to understand the true nature of things and which furthermore, "liberates and delivers him from the fetters and limitations of earthly existence," has been and continues to be the central concern and determinant of his intellectual life.
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Average rating: 3.90 · 722 ratings · 93 reviews · 100 distinct works

	The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity 3.93 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 2001 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam's Mystical Tradition 4.01 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Islam: Religion, History, and Civilization 3.58 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World 3.92 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Knowledge and the Sacred 3.93 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1981	My rating:
	Ideals And Realities Of Islam 4.09 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1965 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Man and Nature: The Spiritual Crisis in Modern Man 3.88 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1976 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Sufi Essays 3.31 avg rating — 16 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	History of Islamic Philosophy by Seyyed Hossein Nasr (Editor), Oliver Leaman (Editor) 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Need for a Sacred Science (S U N Y Series in Religious Studies) 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	My rating: