The Timeless Relevance of Traditional Wisdom
by Lakhani, Ali M.; Shah-Kazemi, Reza; Stoddart, WilliamEdition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2010-09-16
Publisher(s): World Wisdom
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
M. Ali Lakhani, a graduate of Cambridge University, is the founder and editor of the Traditionalist journal, Sacred Web. He is also the editor of The Sacred Foundations of Justice in Islam: The Teachings of 'Ali ibn Abi Talib. He is a practicing barrister in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Table of Contents
| Dedication and Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xiii |
| The Sacred Web Essays | |
| What is "Tradition"? | p. 3 |
| An Introduction to Sacred Web | p. 5 |
| The Importance of Spiritual Literacy | p. 8 |
| Pluralism and the Metaphysics of Morality | p. 12 |
| "What Thirst Is For" | p. 15 |
| Of Detachment and Spiritual Courtesy | p. 20 |
| Consecrated to the Sublime | p. 25 |
| "Fundamentalism": A Metaphysical Perspective | p. 32 |
| Reclaiming the Center | p. 38 |
| Understanding "Tradition" | p. 52 |
| On Faith and Intellect | p. 56 |
| Umberto Eco, Fascism and Tradition | p. 60 |
| Towards a Traditional Understanding of Sexuality | p. 68 |
| On Translation | p. 78 |
| The Principle of Verticality | p. 85 |
| The Quest for Moral Certainty | p. 94 |
| On Cultivating Awareness | p. 100 |
| What is Normal? | p. 108 |
| The Problem of Evil | p. 118 |
| The Secular and the Sacred | p. 125 |
| "Standing Unshakably in the True": A Commentary on the Teachings of Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998) | p. 132 |
| "A Single Principle": On Faith and Pluralism | p. 143 |
| Striving for "Wholeness" in the Kali Yuga | p. 149 |
| The Secularization of Faith in the Modern World | p. 154 |
| Of "Longing" and "Belonging" | p. 160 |
| Papers on Metaphysics | |
| Excerpt from "The Metaphysics of Human Governance" | p. 167 |
| The Metaphysics of Poetic Expression | p. 176 |
| Traditional Metaphysics-A Phenomenological Approach | p. 176 |
| What is "Poetry"? | p. 182 |
| "Poiesis" and "Logos" | p. 195 |
| Poetic Vision-Seeing with the Eye of the Heart | p. 205 |
| Poetic Expression-Saying the Unsayable | p. 219 |
| Conclusion | p. 226 |
| "Neither of the East nor of the West": Universality in Islam | p. 231 |
| Education in the light of Tradition: A Metaphysical Perspective | p. 247 |
| Book Reviews | |
| Review of Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul | p. 263 |
| Review of Conversations with Wendell Berry | p. 270 |
| Review of the Henry Corbin Trilogy | p. 278 |
| Biographical Notes | p. 295 |
| Index | p. 297 |
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