Return to the Eternal Abode

<p><b>Thought-provoking comprehensive and interdisciplinary conversations on Sufism with one of the world's foremost scholars of Islamic religion and comparative studies.</b></p><p><i>Return to the Eternal Abode</i> 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.</p>