Seyyed Hossein Nasr is University Professor of Islamic Studies at The George Washington University. For the past seven decades, he has been widely regarded as a leading authority on Islamic philosophy, mysticism, art, and science, as well as religion and ecology and comparative religion. He is the author of over ninety books and six hundred articles, and is the subject of a number of monographs, articles, and edited collections, including a volume dedicated to his thought in the famous Library of Living Philosophers series entitled The Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr (2001). Among Professor Nasr’s many publications are Science and Civilization in Islam (1968), Knowledge and the Sacred (1989), Religion and the Order of Nature (1996), The Garden of Truth (2007), The Study Quran (2015), A Sufi Commentary on the Tao Te Ching (2025), and What is Metaphysics? (2025).
