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A. K. Saran
Awadh Kishore Saran (1922 – 2003), popularly known as A. K. Saran, was an Indian scholar, editor, and writer who was one of the most influential voices on traditionalist thoughts in the Hindu world. Career Saran's works frequently featured traditionalists and perennialist philosophers such as Frithjof Schuon and, in particular, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, whom Saran first encountered when he was ten years old. He served as a professor of sociology at the University of Lucknow in Lucknow, India and held the Gamaliel chair in peace and justice at the Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Works * ''Traditional thought: Toward an axiomatic approach : a book on reminders'' (Samyag-vak special series) (1996) * ''Illuminations: A School for the Regeneration of Man's Experience, Imagination, and Intellectual Integrity : a Proposal (in Two Parts) (1996)'' * ''On the Intellectual Vocation: A Rosary of Edifying Texts with an Analytical-elucidatory Essay (1996)'' * ''Sociology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traditionalist School (perennialism)
The Traditionalist or Perennialist School is a group of 20th- and 21st-century thinkers who believe in the existence of a perennial wisdom or perennial philosophy, primordial and universal truths which form the source for, and are shared by, all the major world religions. The early proponents of this school of thought are René Guénon, Ananda Coomaraswamy, and Frithjof Schuon. Other notable members include Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Titus Burckhardt, Martin Lings, William Stoddart, Jean-Louis Michon, Marco Pallis, and Huston Smith. Concept According to the members of the Traditionalist School, also known as the Perennialist School, all major world religions are founded upon common primordial and universal metaphysical truths. The perspective of its authors is often referred to as ''philosophia perennis'' (perennial philosophy), which is both "absolute Truth and infinite Presence". Absolute Truth is "the perennial wisdom (''sophia perennis'') that stands as the transcendent s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Sherrard
Philip Owen Arnould Sherrard (23 September 1922 – 30 May 1995) was a British author and translator. His work includes translations of Modern Greek poets, and books on Modern Greek literature and culture, metaphysics, theology, art and aesthetics. In England he was influential in making major Greek poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries known. He also wrote prolifically on theological and philosophical themes, describing what he believed to be a social and spiritual crisis occurring in the developed world, specifically modern attitudes towards the biophysical environment from a Christian perspective. Biography Philip Owen Arnould Sherrard was born on 23 September 1922 in Oxford. His family had many connections with the literary world of the period: his mother, Brynhild Olivier, had been a member of Rupert Brooke's circle before the First World War and his half-sister was married to Quentin Bell, the nephew of Virginia Woolf. He was educated at Dauntsey's Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Indian Male Writers
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Indian Sociologists
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21st-century Indian Scholars
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2003 Deaths
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1922 Births
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Elémire Zolla
Elémire Zolla (9 July 1926 – 29 May 2002) was an Italian essayist, philosopher and historian of religion. He was a connoisseur of esoteric doctrines and a scholar of Eastern and Western mysticism. Biography Zolla was born in Turin to a cosmopolitan family. His father was the painter Venanzio Zolla (1880–1961), born in England of Lombard father and an Alsatian mother. His mother was Blanche Smith (1885–1951) a British musician, originally of Kent. Zolla spent his childhood between Paris, London, and Turin, speaking English, French, and Italian, while studying German and Spanish. At age 22, he became ill with tuberculosis. During this illness he wrote a novel, ''Minuetto all'inferno'' inuet in Hell published in 1956, which won the Strega Prize for a debut work. In 1957, he moved to Rome, where he worked in the drafting of ''Tempo presente'' his Time In 1959, he published the essay ''Eclissi dell'intellettuale'', an unconventional work in which, starting from a critique ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Valsan
Michel Valsan ( ro, Mihai Vâlsan; 1 February 1907, Brăila, Kingdom of Romania – 25/26 November 1974, Antony, Hauts-de-Seine) was a Muslim scholar and master of a Shadhiliyya tariqah in Paris under the name ''Shaykh Mustafa 'Abd al-'Aziz''. As well, he was a Romanian diplomat and a prolific translator who specialized in translating and interpreting the works of the Sufi theoretician Ibn Arabi. A follower of René Guénon, Valsan considered Hinduism, Taoism and Islam as "the three main forms of the present traditional world, representing the Middle-East, the Far-East, and the Near-East, as reflections of the three aspects of the Lord of the World."M. Valsan, "La fonction de René Guénon et le sort de l’Occident" (1951), p. 218 Valsan introduced the study of Islamic esoteric doctrine, in particular that of Ibn Arabi and his school, into the context of the "traditional studies" based around the work of René Guénon (''Shaykh 'Abd al-Wahid Yahya''), of which he was a constant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Stoddart
William Stoddart (born 25 June 1925, in Carstairs) is a Scottish physician, author and "spiritual traveller", who has written several books on the Perennial Philosophy and on comparative religion. He has been called a "master of synthesis"''Sophia'', Volume 4, Number 2, Winter 1998 and is one of the important Perennialist writers in the present day. For many years he was assistant editor of the British journal Studies in Comparative Religion. He has translated into English, from the original French or German, several of the books of the perennialist masters Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) and Titus Burckhardt (1908–1984). Bibliography Books As author * ''Outline of Sufism: The Essentials of Islamic Spirituality'' (World Wisdom, 2013) * ''What does Islam mean in today's world?'' (World Wisdom, 2012) * ''Remembering in a World of Forgetting'' (World Wisdom, 2008) * ''Invincible Wisdom'' (Sophia Perennis, 2007) * ''Hinduism and Its Spiritual Masters'' (Fons Vitae, 2006) * ''Outl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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