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The Library of Living Philosophers

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Seyyed Hossein Nasr is one of the acutest and clearest writers on Islam today, and indeed for a long time has been the leading interpreter of Islamic thought to the West. Born in Tehran in 1933 and educated both in Iran and later in science in the United States, his early specialization was in Islamic science. He is the author of over twenty books and over two hundred articles and is a frequent lecturer in both the Islamic and non-Islamic world. His early academic career was spent in Iran, where he rose to increasingly important university positions, but in 1979 with the revolution he was obliged to leave, and since then he has been based in the United States.

Nasr is far from an uncontroversial figure in the Islamic world, largely because of his advocacy of certain contemporary non-Islamic thinkers as significant in the tradition of perennial philosophy.

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