Harith B. Asad Al-Muhasibi (165-243) has long been recognized by Islamic scholars as the real master of the first period of Islamic mysticism. Considering his ethical views in his works, Muhasibi, can be certainly mentioned as a moral philosopher. Al-Muhasibi’s most important work, Riaya lihuquq ...
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Harith B. Asad Al-Muhasibi (165-243) has long been recognized by Islamic scholars as the real master of the first period of Islamic mysticism. Considering his ethical views in his works, Muhasibi, can be certainly mentioned as a moral philosopher. Al-Muhasibi’s most important work, Riaya lihuquq Alla, is perhaps the finest manual for the spiritual life which Islam has generated. This paper presents Muhasibi’s moral system based on his views
Volume 3, Issue 1 , September 2012, , Pages 97-117
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From the standpoint of Seyyed Hossein Nasr the most challenges of human is due to demystification of knowledge. That’s why Scientia sacra is very important in his thought. His method is completely different from epistemologists’s method. He believes Primordial Tradition is able to overcome ...
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From the standpoint of Seyyed Hossein Nasr the most challenges of human is due to demystification of knowledge. That’s why Scientia sacra is very important in his thought. His method is completely different from epistemologists’s method. He believes Primordial Tradition is able to overcome challenges. In this paper Scientia sacra from the standpoint of Seyyed Hossein Nasr is described and finally it is criticized
Environmental Issues (crisis) are great concerns in the present world. Seyyed Hossein Nasr believed that environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes, and a deep transformation of our understanding of nature and of the human state are quite necessary. He also ...
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Environmental Issues (crisis) are great concerns in the present world. Seyyed Hossein Nasr believed that environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes, and a deep transformation of our understanding of nature and of the human state are quite necessary. He also believes that this crisis cannot be solved by good (better) engineering, economical planning and even by change in our conception in development and change. Although there are technologies which can reduce pollution, but he does not believe that those technologies alone will save this crisis. He argued that a very radical consciousness_ that the traditional humanity always had_ is reqiured. The aim of this paper is to describe and evaluate the view point of Seyyed Hossein Nasr regarding the environmental issues and its solution
Volume 1, Issue 1 , September 2010, , Pages 77-100
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The relation between tradition and modernity and providing solutions to the challenges created by modernity are among the major intellectual concerns of Dr. Nasr. In his view, one cannot make any assertions on this relationship, without understanding the foundations of modernity and understanding man ...
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The relation between tradition and modernity and providing solutions to the challenges created by modernity are among the major intellectual concerns of Dr. Nasr. In his view, one cannot make any assertions on this relationship, without understanding the foundations of modernity and understanding man is one of the crucial foundations of modernity, which has a basic conflict with tradition. The present article investigates the approach of Dr.Nasr to metaphysical anthropology with regard to Traditionalism. The importance of this discussion lies in the fact that the modern and postmodern anthropology have very unpleasant and harmful consequences. Some of these consequences such as the environmental crisis have affected the life of the whole humanity in the world. Dr.Nasr investigates and crticizes Humanism, not the Christian anthropology, and attempts to analyze the shift from Theocentrism to Homocentrism in the history of the western thought. By citing the main characteristics of the modern man and contrasting them with the main characteristics of the traditional man, he attempts to show the contranst between these two types of anthropology. He finally analyzes the evil and harmful consequences of the modern anthropology and shows that the way to overcome the challenges in this domain is a basic return to traditional anthropology.
