Return to the Eternal Abode

Return to the Eternal AbodeThought 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,

the discourses of the Frankfurt School

Part four focuses on the prominence of discovery in Renaissance culture

critical intellectuals who defy authority with continued social criticism

Selected letters from Juliette Drouet to her lover

and demonstrates the many different ways in which feminist concerns are taken up in discussions regarding the nature of the political in contemporary continental thought

A first-hand description of the Mani Rimdu festival of Tibet and Nepal

and the main observational results that support those ideas

articulated through such notions as desire

Sadik Al-Azm (1934-2016) was one of the foremost Arab public intellectuals

by Yung Wing

Drawing on original manuscripts and Victorian psychological theory

This chapter provides an overview of CBFM in the tropics