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The Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr (Library of Living Philosophers) ReviewI've noticed the writings of S.H. Nasr since 1995. While being a leading scholar on Islamic philosophy and intellectual tradition (that was how I first noticed his writings), he also holds an interesting 'traditional' views which he called (along with other Western Orientalists) 'perennial philosophy'.
From an editing point of view, I think this is a very solid selection of different views towards Nasr. The first part includes an intellectual autobiography written by Nasr, which does NOT give a full restatement of his philosophy (as it was for the other non-western philosopher in this series for S. Radhakrishnan), but it gives interesting personal background of Nasr's career under the context of a wide network of philosophers in both Iran and other countries. At the end of the book, there is a detailed bibliography of the works of Nasr in different languages. For someone who wants to study Nasr as a philosopher, this book is simply a must, as it makes clear with Nasr's own words on what he considers to be his more important works (e.g. I'd otherwise never have suspected that his editing of Islamic Spirtuality is considered by him to be one of the more important project in his career)
There are also many well-written articles by critics that makes the book interesting. The attacks by the Buddhist, Neo-Confucian standpoints, together with the critique by his collaborator M. Aminrazavi are very to-the-point which I don't think Nasr (nor any dogmatic traditionalist) can answer convincingly. But these exchanges do help clarify some reasons why Nasr's model for the transcendent unity of world religions (which is used as the basis for inter-religious dialogues) would need modifications. It is also interesting for me to also get to know more about Nasr's antagonistic attitudes (which I have suspected but never verified before this volume comes out) towards the other type of 'unity of religons' model propelled by Neo-Vedantist such as S. Radhakrishnan.
All in all, even though an expensive volume, it is a good buy if you are either interested in the thoughts of Nasr or in examining the potential basis for inter-religious dialogues.The Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr (Library of Living Philosophers) OverviewSeyyed Hossein Nasr, a Persian Sufist is the subject of volume 28 in the "Library of Living Philosophers" series. As in the other volumes of the series, the subject discusses his life and philosophical development in an intellectual autobiography. This is followed by 33 critical essays by various scholars and Nasr's replies to each of them. Nasr has been influential in the fields of comparative religion, theology and Islamic studies, as well as philosophy and comparative philosophy. He is also known for his writings on the history of art, the history of science and Sufism (Islamic Mysticism).

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