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The Heart of Islam by SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR pdf

The Heart of Islam by SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR
Book Title The Heart Of Islam
Book AuthorSeyyed Hossein Nasr
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The Heart of Islam by SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR

THE HEART OF ISLAM.

The world is thirsty for information about Islam, especially in America, yet this thirst has generally not been quenched with healthy water.

 In fact, a torrent of “knowledge” has flooded the media from books to journals, radio, and television, much of which is based on ignorance, misinformation, and even disinformation.

Not only has this torrent failed the cause of understanding, it has too frequently rendered the greatest disservice to the Western public in order to further particular ideological and political goals.

 Of course, distortion of matters Islamic in the West is not new; it has a thousand-year-old history going back to monstrous biographies of the Prophet of Islam written mostly in Latin in France and Germany in the tenth and eleventh centuries.

This earlier portrayal of Islam as a Chris¬ tian heresy, however, still showed an intellectual respect for Islamic civilization and thought. During the Renaissance such figures as Petrarch abandoned even this respect in favor of outright disdain.

 During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, certain figures such as Voltaire tried to use aspects of Islam to attack Christianity, while a number of exceptional figures like Goethe and Emerson held Islamic teachings in great love and esteem.

Meanwhile, the new methods of rationalist, historicist, and skeptical scholarship about religion growing out of the so-called Age of Enlightenment (which was in reality an age of the darkening of the soul and eclipse of the intellect) began to apply their meth¬ ods to the study of Islam in the name of orientalism.

Even when they were not serving colonial powers, most of these orientalists studied Islam in the arrogant belief that they possessed a flawless scientific method that applied universally to all religions

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