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Publication
State University of New York Press (1989), Paperback, 354 pages
Description
PREFACE 1. Knowledge and Its Desacralization 2. What Is Tradition? 3. The Rediscovery of the Sacred: The Revival of Tradition 4. Scientia Sacra 5. Man, Pontifical and Promethean 6. The Cosmos as Theophany 7. Eternity and the Temporal Order 8. Traditional Art as Fountain of Knowledge and Grace 9. Principial Knowledge and the Multiplicity of Sacred Forms 10. Knowledge of the Sacred as Deliverance INDEX
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Physical description
354 p.; 4.92 inches
ISBN
0791401774 / 9780791401774
Other editions
Knowledge and the sacred by Seyyed Hossein Nasr (Paper Book)
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