The Timeless Relevance of Traditional WisdomWorld Wisdom, Inc, 2010 - 301 pages More than ever, there is an urgent need to rediscover timeless and objective principles in order to confront the issues of our times. In this collection of thirty remarkable essays, Lakhani summons us to rediscover the sacred worldview of Tradition, governed by truth, virtue, and beauty, as he addresses some of the most pressing issues today, including fundamentalism, gender and sexuality, religious diversity and pluralism, faith and science, and the problem of evil. |
Contents
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What Thirst Is For | 15 |
Of Detachment and Spiritual Courtesy | 20 |
Consecrated to the Sublime | 25 |
A Metaphysical Perspective | 32 |
The Secular and the Sacred | 125 |
Standing Unshakably in the True | 132 |
On Faith and Pluralism | 143 |
Striving for Wholeness in the Kali Yuga | 149 |
The Secularization of Faith in the Modern World | 154 |
Of Longing and Belonging | 160 |
Papers on Metaphysics | 165 |
Imam Ali Truth and Justice | 167 |
Reclaiming the Center | 38 |
Understanding Tradition | 52 |
On Faith and Intellect | 56 |
Umberto Eco Fascism and Tradition | 60 |
Towards a Traditional Understanding of Sexuality | 68 |
On Translation | 78 |
The Principle of Verticality | 85 |
The Quest for Moral Certainty | 94 |
On Cultivating Awareness | 100 |
What is Normal? | 108 |
The Problem of Evil | 118 |
Common terms and phrases
Absolute aesthetic archetypal aspect awareness Beauty become Center Cheetham Chittick compassion consciousness Corbin cosmic creation creative creatures detachment dimension discernment Divine doctrine editorial for Sacred egoic epistemology essay essence ethos existence expression eyes faith traditions freedom Frithjof Schuon fundamentalism gender grace Guénon Hadith heart heaven human Ibn Arabi Imagination immanent inner innermost integrity Intellect intelligence intimacy Islam knowledge Koran light live Logos Maria Jolas Martin Lings meaning merely metaphysically transparent modernist moral Muslim mystery nature norm objective one’s ontological origin outer perceive perception Perennial Philosophy perspective poem poet poetic poetry prayer primordial principles reality realm receptive religion religious René Guénon revelation rooted scientism secular sense Seyyed Hossein Nasr soul spiritual substance Surah symbol tawhid teaches Temenos academy theophany thereby things tion Titus Burckhardt Traditional metaphysics traditionalist transcendent true understanding universal veil verticality virtue vision Wendell Berry words World Wisdom worldview