TIAIS (Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies) Executive Director Mohammed Rustom and Director of Academic Affairs Muhammad U. Faruque, along with Professor Atif Khalil, have just published I of the Heart, a tribute to one of the most widely respected and influential pioneers in the field of Islamic Studies, Seyyed Hossein Nasr. For seven decades, and in over 90 books and 600 articles, Professor Nasr has drawn significant attention to the riches of the Islamic intellectual heritage, from Sufism and philosophy on the one hand, to science and art on the other. He has also been at the forefront of discussions on several major contemporary issues, such as the environmental crisis. The forty essays in this volume, by some of the leading scholars in Islamic Studies today, are divided into six sections in accordance with Professor Nasr’s wide range of interests and expertise:
Contributors include: Gholamreza Aavani, Asma Afsaruddin, Mukhtar H. Ali, Mohammed Mehdi Ali, Khalil Andani, Muhammad Fariduddin Attar, Leili Anvar, Waleed El-Ansary, Ankur Barua, Jonathan AC Brown, Justin Cancelliere, William C. Chittick, Kevin Corrigan, Davlat Dadikhuda, Maria Massi Dakake, Muhammad U. Faruque, Denis Gril, Sherman A. Jackson, Karim H. Karim, Atif Khalil, Vinay Khetia, Joseph E. B. Lumbard, Munjed M. Murad, James Morris, Murad Khan Mumtaz, Sachiko Murata, Shankar Nair, Martin Nguyen, Oludamini Ogunnaike, Dunja Rašić, Mohammed Rustom, Rana Shieh, Liyakat Takim, Anand Vivek Taneja, Hasan Umut, Gregory Vandamme, Shafique N. Virani, John Walbridge, and Syed A.H. Zaidi
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