Return to the Eternal Abode

Sufi Dialogues with Seyyed Hossein Nasr

By: Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Amira El-Zein

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Hardcover | 1 January 2025

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236 Pages

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Return to the Eternal Abode is a series of in-depth discussions between Amira El-Zein and Seyyed Hossein Nasr, one of the world's foremost scholars of Islamic, religious, and comparative studies. Each of the six chapters addresses a central theme at the heart of Sufism: creativity, cosmology, the environment, poetry, art, and modernity. Nasr's answers to El-Zein's probing questions offer thought-provoking, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary approaches to these aspects of the Sufi tradition, reflecting a lifetime of scholarship and comfortably synthesizing various sources, philosophies, and traditions, both Islamic and otherwise. The book also sheds light on Nasr's relations to eminent thinkers of the twentieth century, such as Titus Burckhardt, Mircea Eliade, Louis Massignon, and Henry Corbin and provides, in many ways, an accessible synopsis or overview of his entire oeuvre.

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""Return to the Eternal Abode is an engaging and even joyful exploration of Sufism, delving into the topics of cosmology and poetry-and unraveling the intricate connections between them. The book welcomes readers with or without expertise, requiring little more than a genuine sense of curiosity and a belief in philosophy's original promise to reveal the most fundamental truths of human existence."" - Cyrus Ali Zargar, University of Central Florida, author of Religion of Love Sufism and Self-Transformation in the Poetic Imagination of ÊAa¹a¹Är

""These dialogues offer accessible, clear explanations of some rather subtle issues within Sufism, ranging from the relationship between different cultures and forms or styles of Islamic art, to Greek philosophy and Islam, and the relationship between imagination and cosmology. The conversational style is exceptionally readable, and functions to make subjects that are otherwise dense or difficult relatively easy to understand."" - William Rory Dickson, University of Winnipeg, author of Living Sufism in North America Between Tradition and Transformation

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