Return to the Eternal Abode

Sufi Dialogues with Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Amira El-Zein

• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN: 9798855800777, 9798855800784
• eBook ISBN: 9798855800791
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern Literary

Thought-provoking, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary conversations on Sufism with one of the world's foremost scholars of Islamic, religion, and comparative studies.

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction: Thirst for the Source
• 1. Sufism and Creativity
• 2. Sufism and Cosmology
• 3. Sufism and the Environment
• 4. Sufism and Poetry
• 5. Art and Sufism
• 6. Sufism and Modernity
• Notes
• Index
• Back Cover