Understanding Islam - Hardcover
"Islam confronts what is immutable in God with what is permanent in man".
These are the opening words of what has become a classic work on Islam, perhaps the most misunderstood of the great Revelations. Westerners unfamiliar with Islam and Moslems seeking a deeper understanding of the basis of their faith will be struck by Schuon's masterful treatise.
He examines the the Qur'an, the Sunna, the Prophet and the esoteric dimension that is the kernel of Moslem spirituality, showing how each of these pillars of Islam relates to all the others.
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Frithjof Schuon is best known as the foremost spokesman of the religio perennis and as a philosopher in the metaphysical current of Shankara and Plato. Over the past 50 years, he has written more than 20 books on metaphysical, spiritual and ethnic themes as well as having been a regular contributor to journals on comparative religion in both Europe and America. Schuon's writings have been consistently featured and reviewed in a wide range of scholarly and philosophical publications around the world, respected by both scholars and spiritual authorities.
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Schuon was born in 1907 in Basle, Switzerland, of German parents. As a youth, he went to Paris, where he studied for a few years before undertaking a number of trips to North Africa, the Near East and India in order to contact spiritual authorities and witness traditional cultures. Following World War II, he accepted an invitation to travel to the American West, where he lived for several months among the Plains Indians, in whom he has always had a deep interest. Having received his education in France, Schuon has written all his major works in French, which began to appear in English translation in 1953. Of his first book, The Transcendent Unity of Religions (London, Faber & Faber) T.S. Eliot wrote: "I have met with no more impressive work in the comparative study of Oriental and Occidental religion."
The dominant theme or principle of Schuon's writings was foreshadowed in his early encounter with a Black marabout who had accompanied some members of his Senegalese village to Switzerland in order to demonstrate their culture. When the young Schuon talked with him, the venerable old man drew a circle with radii on the ground and explained: "God is in the center, all paths lead to Him."
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
Original Language: French
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- PublisherGeorge Allen & Unwin LTD
- Publication date1963
- ISBN 10 0042970172
- ISBN 13 9780042970172
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages1959
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