Understanding Islam: A New Translation With Selected Letters - Couverture souple

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Schuon, Frithjof

 
9781935493907: Understanding Islam: A New Translation With Selected Letters
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1935493906 ISBN 13 : 9781935493907
Editeur : World Wisdom Books, 2011

Synopsis

Islam is the meeting between God as such and man as such. . . . Islam confronts what is immutable in God with what is permanent in man. These are the opening words of Schuon's classic masterwork on Islam, perhaps the most misunderstood of the great Revelations. The purpose of this book is not so much to give a description of Islam as to explain why Muslims believe in it . Both Westerners unfamiliar with Islam and Muslims seeking a deeper understanding of the basis of faith will be struck by Schuon's masterful explanation of the spiritual world of Islam. This edition features: · Completely new translation from the original French. · 77 pages of completely new material, including previously unpublished letters and other writings by Frithjof Schuon. · New chapter called The Three Dimensions of Sufism which has never been published before in book form. · Extensive Editor's Notes added by Patrick Laude (Georgetown University), the editor, which help to explain various concepts, key terms and historical figures who are mentioned in the text. · New Editor's Preface by Patrick Laude, and a Foreword by Annemarie Schimmel (Harvard University). · Glossary of Foreign Terms. · Updated and expanded Index.

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À propos de l?auteur

Frithjof Schuon is best known as the foremost spokesman of the Perennial Philosophy and as a philosopher in the metaphysical current of Shankara and Plato. Schuon was born in 1907 in Basle, Switzerland, of German parents and died in the United States in 1998. Patrick Laude is a professor at Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He lives in Qatar.

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Éditeur
World Wisdom Books
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1935493906
ISBN 13 
9781935493907
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
Éditeur
Laude Patrick
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