The Timeless Relevance of Traditional Wisdom

by Ali M. Lakhani, William Stoddart author of Remembering in a World of Forgetting (Introduction), Reza Shah-Kazemi (Foreword by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935493884
Publisher:	World Wisdom
Publication date:	10/01/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	324
File size:	641 KB

About the Author

Author, editor, and lawyer, Lakhani is the founder of Sacred Web, a scholarly journal on philosophy and spirituality which has received glowing praise from Prince Charles and famed world religion specialists Karen Armstrong and Huston Smith. He is also the editor of The Sacred Foundations of Justice in Islam: The Teachings of ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib.

William Stoddart was born at Carstairs in Scotland in 1925. He studied modern languages, and later medicine, at the universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dublin. His previous books include: Sufism: The Mystical Doctrines and Methods of Islam (1976; editions in seven languages), Outline of Hinduism (1993), and Outline of Buddhism (1998).