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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Sacred Foundations of Justice in Islam The Teachings of 'Ali Ibn Abi Talib by M. Ali Lakhani The Sacred Foundations of Justice in Islam: The Teachings of 'Ali Ibn Abi Talib by M. Ali Lakhani. Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog. Note: Contents data are machine generated based on pre-publication provided by the publisher. Contents may have variations from the printed book or be incomplete or contain other coding. Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: �Alêai ibn Abêai áoTêaalib, Caliph, 600 (ca.)-661 -- Views on justice. �Alêai ibn Abêai áoTêaalib, Caliph, 600 (ca.)-661 -- Teachings. Islam and justice. The Sacred Foundations of Justice in Islam: The Teachings of 'Ali Ibn Abi Talib. This is the definitive introduction to the writings of 'Ali, who was the son-in-law to the Prophet Muhammad, the fourth caliph to Sunni Muslims, and the central figure in Shi'a Islam. Two essays in this anthology won awards at the International Congress on Iman 'Ali, Tehran, 2001. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, pronounced them, among the best writings on this extraordinary figure in Western languages and are obligatory reading for anyone interested in 'Ali. …mehr. The Sacred Foundations of Justice in Islam: The Teachings of 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (Perennial Philosophy) (Book) Numerous educational institutions recommend us, including Oxford University and University of Missouri. Our publication has been reviewed for educational use by Common Sense Education, Internet Scout, Merlot II, OER Commons and School Library Journal. Please note that some of these recommendations are listed under our old name, Ancient History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia Foundation is a non-profit organization registered in Canada. Ancient History Encyclopedia Limited is a non-profit company registered in the United Kingdom. Some Rights Reserved (2009-2021) under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license unless otherwise noted. The Sacred Foundations of Justice in Islam: The Teachings of 'Ali Ibn Abi Talib by M. Ali Lakhani. September 23rd and 24th, 2006 Myer Horowitz Theatre, University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta. Conference Introduction. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES His Royal Highness Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, is actively interested in traditional thought and its applications to the problems of the modern world. Through various foundations and charities, including The Prince’s Trust (established in 1976), Prince Charles has promoted improvement in the fields of ecology, agriculture, architecture, and the arts, and is an advocate of pluralism and the respect for sacred traditions. He is the patron of the Temenos Academy, which is dedicated to the “perennial philosophy”. Keynote Address. PROFESSOR SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR Professor Seyyed Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr, one of the world’s leading experts on Islamic science and spirituality, is University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University. Professor Nasr is the author of numerous books, including Man and Nature: the Spiritual Crisis of Modern Man (Kazi Publications, 1998), Religion and the Order of Nature (Oxford, 1996) and Knowledge and the Sacred (SUNY, 1998). Professor Nasr, currently University Professor of Islamic Studies at the George Washington University, Washington, D.C., is one of the most important and foremost scholars of Islamic, Religious and Comparative Studies in the world today. Author of over fifty books and five hundred articles that have been translated into several major Islamic, European and Asian languages, Professor Nasr is a well known and highly respected intellectual figure both in the West and the Islamic world. An eloquent speaker with a charismatic presence, Nasr is a much sought-after speaker at academic conferences and seminars, university and public lectures and also radio and television programs in his area of expertise. The range of subjects and areas of study that Professor Nasr has involved and engaged himself with in his academic career and intellectual life is immense. As demonstrated by his numerous writings, lectures and speeches, Professor Nasr speaks and writes with great authority on a wide variety of subjects, ranging from philosophy to religion to spirituality, to music and art and architecture, to science and literature, to civilizational dialogues and the natural environment. For Seyyed Hossein Nasr, the quest for knowledge, specifically knowledge that enables man to understand the true nature of things and that furthermore “liberates and delivers him from the fetters and limitations of earthly existence,” has been and continues to be the central concern and determinant of his intellectual life. A volume in the prestigious Library of Living Philosophers (to which he was the 28th inductee, alongside thinkers such as Buber, Dewey, Einstein, Moore, Popper, Russell, Santayana, Sartre, and Whitehead) has been dedicated to his life and thought. Presenters. PROFESSOR WILLIAM C. CHITTICK William C. Chittick is professor in the Department of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Among his publications are The Sufi Path of Love: the Spiritual Teachings of Rumi (1983), The Psalms of Islam (1998), The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn al-‘Arabí’s Cosmology (1998), Sufism: a Short Introduction (2000), and The Heart of Islamic Philosophy: the Quest for Self-Knowledge and the Teachings of Afdal al-Dîn Kâshânî (2001). He is also the author of The Sufi Doctrine of Rumi (2005). Professor Chittick is one of the world’s leading translators and interpreters of the mystical poetry of Jalaluddin Rumi. He is also recognized for his translation and interpretation of the writings of the great Sufi theorist and poet, Ibn Arabi. PROFESSOR JAMES S. CUTSINGER James S. Cutsinger (Ph.D., Harvard) is Professor of Theology and Religious Thought at the University of South Carolina. A widely recognized authority on the Sophia Perennis and the traditionalist school of comparative religious thought, he is best known for his work on the Swiss philosopher Frithjof Schuon. Professor Cutsinger serves as secretary to the Foundation of raditional Studies, and he is currently editing the Collected Works of Frithjof Schuon. In addition, he is editing an anthology of Christian mystical writings for World Wisdom Books. Presented from a perspective of the transcendent unity of denominations, the anthology will include selected writings of Christian sages and saints from the Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Evangelical and Celtic branches of the Christian tradition. The recipient of numerous teaching awards, he was honored in 1999 as a Michael J. Mungo University Teacher of the Year. He offers courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in Religious Studies, and he is a frequent contributor to USC’s Honors College, where he has taken the lead in developing a series of courses in the study of the Great Books. Professor Cutsinger is a nationally known advocate of Socratic teaching based on the classics. MICHAEL OREN FITZGERALD Michael Oren Fitzgerald has written and edited numerous publications on American Indian spirituality, including Yellowtail: Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief. Fitzgerald has taught Religious Traditions of the North American Indians in the Indiana University Continuing Studies Department at Bloomington, Indiana. He holds a Doctor of Jurisprudence, cum laude, from Indiana University. Michael Fitzgerald is an adopted son of the late Thomas Yellowtail, one of the most honored American Indian spiritual leaders of the last century, and is an adopted member of the Crow tribe. He has attended sacred rites of the Crow, Sioux, Cheyenne, Shoshone, Bannock and Apache tribes. DR. JEAN-LOUIS MICHON Jean-Louis Michon is a traditionalist French scholar who specializes in Islam in North Africa, Islamic Art, and Sufism, His works include Le Soufi marrocain Ahmad Ibn ‘Ajiba and L’Autobiographie (Fahrasa) du Soufi marrocain Ahmad Ibn ‘Ajiba (1747- 1809). For eight years he was the Chief Technical Advisor to the Moroccan government on UNESCO/UNDP projects for the preservation of the cultural heritage. Dr. Michon coordinated the rehabilitation of traditional handicrafts that were seriously threatened by industrialization and other factors. To preserve Morocco’s monuments, sites, museum collections, living folk arts and traditions, he set up an inventorization and classification of the assets of the cultural heritage. Furthermore, he was instrumental in preserving and restoring the ancient casbahs (castles) of Morocco in a project designed to safeguard the ancient city of Fez. His article “The Vocation of Man According to the Koran” appears in Every Branch in Me: Essays on the Meaning of Man (World Wisdom Books). Dr. Michon is also the co-editor of the upcoming book Sufism: Love and Wisdom. PROFESSOR HARRY OLDMEADOW Dr. Harry Oldmeadow is currently the Coordinator of Philosophy and Religious Studies at La Trobe University, Bendigo. Over the last decade he has published extensively in such journals as Sacred Web (Vancouver), Sophia (Washington, D.C.), and Asian Philosophy (Nottingham, U.K.). In late 2001, he was a key speaker at a large interfaith gathering in Sydney, organized by the Australian Centre for Sufism; the theme of the meeting was the need for inter-religious understanding in the wake of the September 11 attacks. He is the author of a major study concerning twentieth-century