作者: Peter Samsel

Peter Samsel is an independent scholar with wide-ranging interests in traditional metaphysics, symbolism, science, and art. He holds a doctorate in theoretical physics and is the author of articles and review essays in Parabola, Sophia: The Journal of Traditional Studies, and Sacred Web: A Journal of Tradition and Modernity. His article, “A Unity with Distinctions: Parallels in the Thought of Gregory Palamas and Ibn al-Arabi, ” appears in the volume Paths to the Heart: Sufism and the Christian East, edited by James S. Cutsinger, which is part of World Wisdom’s Perennial Philosophy series. An article on the Sufi metaphysics of Divine unity, “The First Pillar of Islam, ” was selected by Parabola for their Parabola in the Classroom collection of scholarly articles for educators. He lives in New York state. Seyyed Hossein Nasr is University Professor of Islamic Studies at The George Washington University. The author of over fifty books and five hundred articles, he is one of the world’s most respected writers and speakers on Islam, its arts and sciences, and its traditional mystical path, Sufism. His publications include Sufi Essays, Knowledge and the Sacred (the 1981 Gifford Lectures), Religion and the Order of Nature, Islamic Art and Spirituality, The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity, and Islam: Religion, History, and Civilization. A volume in the prestigious Library of Living Philosophers series has been dedicated to his thought. World Wisdom published The Essential Seyyed Hossein Nasr, edited by William C. Chittick, in 2007.