Product Description: This volume gathers together the numerous essays by the Iranian metaphysician and ontologist, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, on Islamic philosophers and the intricate relationship between Persian culture and its philosophical schools. Brought together into a single volume for the first time, these essays span four decades of Nasr's prolific and learned scholarship on the development of Islamic philosophy, as well as the general history of Islam, and expound his belief that philosophy is not merely a rational but a sacred activity...read more

Product Description: Philosophy, Religion, and the Question of Intolerance is a diverse collection of essays united by a common starting point and theme the awareness that intolerance is a phenomenon encountered in diverse places and circumstances and often handled with limited success...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)