Table of Contents

Foreword   Huston Smith     vii
Introduction   William C. Chittick     ix
Religion
Living in a Multi-Religious World     3
The Traditionalist Approach to Religion     21
Religion and the Environmental Crisis     29
Islam
One God     43
Many Prophets     53
The Nature of Man     65
The Integration of the Soul     73
The Throne of the All-Merciful     85
The Role of Philosophy     97
Suhrawardi     111
Mulla Sadra     115
Existence and Quiddity     119
Tradition
Scientia Sacra     131
Renaissance Humanism     139
God as Reality     153
Time and Eternity     159
Pontifical and Promethean Man     171
The Cosmos as Theophany     189
Traditional Art     203
The Wisdom of the Body     215
In the Beginning was Consciousness     223
Sources     231
Selected Bibliography     233
Biographical Notes     237
Index     239