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In this book, a series of interviews offers an accessible, revealing, human and intellectual biography of leading Islamic scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr is one of the preeminent philosophers writing today. Sure to be a key resource for decades to come, In Search of the Sacred: A Conversation with Seyyed Hossein Nasr on His Life and Thought illuminates Nasr's experiences and shares his insights on topics from religion and philosophy to science and the arts.
Based on a series of interviews, the book combines traditional autobiography with an exploration of the intellectual and spiritual trajectories of the author's thought during key periods of his life. In doing so, it presents a fascinating panorama, not only of the life and ideas of one man, but also of major events ranging from intellectual life in Iran during the Pahlavi period and the Iranian Revolution to some of the major religious and intellectual debates between Islam and modernism. Nasr writes that his "whole life has been a quest for the sacred." This work connects that quest with some of the most important issues of the day in encounters between Islam and the West.
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Turkish: Ebedi Hikmet Peşinde. Trans. Harun Tan. Istanbul: İnsan Yayınları, 2007.
Persian: "جست و جوي امر قدسي- گفت و گو با رامين جهانبگلو”، ترجمۀ سيد مصطفي شهر آييني, تهران, نشر ني, 1385.
Bosnian-Serbo-Croatian: Sayyed Hossein Nasr: Razgovori: u potrazi za svetim. S perzijskog na bosanski preveo Muamer Kodrić. Sarajevo: Dobra knjiga, 2009. (With Ramin Džahanbegloua).
Kurdish: "گەڕانبەدوایموقەدەسدا". وەرگێڕان، عەزیزی یاسین. تاران: وەفایی، شوێنی چاپ، 2017.
