Publication
Imprint: London : World of Islam Festival Publishing Company Ltd, 1976. Context: Originally published in 1976. Responsibility: Frithjof Schuon; translated from the French by J. Peter Hobson, preface by Seyyed Hossein Nasr. OCLC Number: 2614853. Physical: Text : 1 volume : xii, 217 pages ; 22 cm. Features: Includes index.
Call number
PS / Schuon
ISBN
0905035224 / 9780905035222
Original publication date
1976
Collections
CSS Library Notes
Description: This is Frithjof Schuon's third book on Islam (Dimensions of Islam and Understanding Islam). Like the other two previous books it is rooted in Sufism, and like them it has a rich vein of comparative religion, which demonstrates the unity of all true religions on the plane of metaphysical truth.
The opening chapters leave us with a much clearer understanding of the relationship between the great religions and their necessary diversity on the Plano forms.
The central section of the book is largely concerned with metaphysical questions, what's the passes handed down to us on answered or badly answered. The author pleads for a general use, in expanding religion, of "arguments of a higher order, intellectual rather than sentimental," and he himself leads the way.
The final chapters are on the afterlife, one of them being in part a commentary on the Quranic promise that's for each plus soul there shall be two paradises––a much neglected doctrine which contains the solution to more than one enigma. Those who remember the remarkable chapter on the afterlife in the author's DIMENSIONS OF ISLAM Will be delighted to have these further teachings. -- from back cover
Table of Contents: Preface
Truth and presence
Form and substance in religions
The human margin
Paradoxes of spiritual expression
Seeds of the diversions
The Sunnah
Dilemmas with Ash'arite theology
The problem of possibility
The problem of Theodiceies
To Sufi Paradise
The forbidden fruit
The two paradises
FY2001 /
The opening chapters leave us with a much clearer understanding of the relationship between the great religions and their necessary diversity on the Plano forms.
The central section of the book is largely concerned with metaphysical questions, what's the passes handed down to us on answered or badly answered. The author pleads for a general use, in expanding religion, of "arguments of a higher order, intellectual rather than sentimental," and he himself leads the way.
The final chapters are on the afterlife, one of them being in part a commentary on the Quranic promise that's for each plus soul there shall be two paradises––a much neglected doctrine which contains the solution to more than one enigma. Those who remember the remarkable chapter on the afterlife in the author's DIMENSIONS OF ISLAM Will be delighted to have these further teachings. -- from back cover
Table of Contents: Preface
Truth and presence
Form and substance in religions
The human margin
Paradoxes of spiritual expression
Seeds of the diversions
The Sunnah
Dilemmas with Ash'arite theology
The problem of possibility
The problem of Theodiceies
To Sufi Paradise
The forbidden fruit
The two paradises
FY2001 /
Physical description
xii, 217 p.; 22 cm
Original language
French
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