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ISLAMIC ARCHIVESKnowledge and the SacredSeyyed Hossein Nasr
Published
1981
Language
English
Type
Book
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Knowledge and the Sacred

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

His Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh, arguing that knowledge has been severed from the sacred in modern thought and setting out the Traditionalist idea of a sacred science and perennial wisdom.

Keywords: Gifford Lectures, scientia sacra, perennial philosophy, desacralisation of knowledge

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Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. Knowledge and the Sacred. 1981. Archived 14 October 2026 in Islamic Internet Archives: Archive of Modern Islamic Thought. https://islamicarchives.org/works/nasr-knowledge-and-the-sacred/