Salaam from a new brother - Book recomendations please

[celestial]

Salaam Brothers & Sisters,

I came across this forum whilst googling the writer Seyyed Hossein Nasr and I was very pleasantly surprised with the quality of contribuitions here.

It's very reassuring to see a community in pursuit of knowledge and wisdom, the Islamic Renaisance in progress

Praise be to Allah.

I'm currently compiling a reading list of Muslim intellectuals and having just read Islam and the destiny of Man by Gai Eaton I'm thirsting for more.

Your opinions on Frithjof Schuon, Hamza Yusuf, Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Rene Guenon would be appreciated.

For those interested I was born into Sunni Islam (Hanafi) & with parents from a devbandi background. However, faith has eluded me (or rather I have eludued faith) until recently. Instead, humanism (social & economic justice, global unity ) with an interest in Eastern Philosphy/sprituality have provided the framework for much of my life.

Finding such ideas reflected with profundity, in Islam, has really excited my interest.

Anyway, this is just to say salaam.

Saleh

[Zubair]

Salam

I highly recommend Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, especially his lectures, they move me every time i listen to them. he's very knowledgable and knows the state of the Muslims in USA and gives very good advice.
May Allah grant him the best in this life and the Hereafter.

Salam

[celestial]

Salam

I highly recommend Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, especially his lectures, they move me every time i listen to them. he's very knowledgable and knows the state of the Muslims in USA and gives very good advice.
May Allah grant him the best in this life and the Hereafter.

Salam

Salaam Brother Zubair

I have just ordered 'Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart' by Hamza Yusuf which I'm looking forward to read.

Salaam

Saleh

[Ansari_UK]

Asalaam Alaikum celestial

Excellent book i belive just by the title. Shaykh Hamzah Yusuf is a good scholar,

[ifty]

salaams and mubarak,

if you are interested in spirituality, then are many books avialable on a website www.barakah.co.uk

[Kareem]

i would stay away from perenialistic material. it's not in line with ahlus sunnah

[Poisonous Darts]

i would stay away from perenialistic material. it's not in line with ahlus sunnah

Agreed. If you want to read books dealing with the whole business of Modernity/Post Modernity/Trans Modernity and it's Critiques then you're better off buying anything you can get your hands on by Syed Muhammad Naquib Al Attas. He does a much better job of the former without in turn, bastardising his own 'Aqidah, unlike the Perennialists.

[nik61]

Salaam Brothers & Sisters,

Your opinions on Frithjof Schuon, Hamza Yusuf, Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Rene Guenon would be appreciated.

For those interested I was born into Sunni Islam (Hanafi) & with parents from a devbandi background. However, faith has eluded me (or rather I have eludued faith) until recently. Instead, humanism (social & economic justice, global unity ) with an interest in Eastern Philosphy/sprituality have provided the framework for much of my life.

Finding such ideas reflected with profundity, in Islam, has really excited my interest.

Anyway, this is just to say salaam.

Saleh

Welcome back, brother
In time I hope you will discover the need for being in a madhhab.
I'd be extra cautious when reading Hossein Nasr's books.

Frithjof Schuon, Hamza Yusuf, and Rene Guenon are good authors.

Hold fast to the Ahl al-Sunnah wal Jamaah and stay as far away as people who boast that they are qualified to interprate directly from the Qur'an and Sunnah and have no need to consult alims.

May Allah make us all steadfast on the true path.

[nurmuhammad12]

Assalamu 'Alaykum,

The most serious writings on Islam, Sufism, Islamic art, Islamic philosophy, tradition and modernity, the environmental crisis, and comparative religion in any European language have come from the pens of R. Guenon ('Abd al-Wahid Yahya), F. Schuon ('Isa Nur al-Din Ahmad), T. Burckhardt (Ibrahim 'Izz al-Din), M. Lings (Abu Bakr Siraj al-Din), and S.H. Nasr.

H. Yusuf has given commentaries on M. Lings' biography "Muhammad", as well as W. Chittick and S. Murata's "Vision of Islam"--two former students of S.H. Nasr.

Apparently, Nuh H.M. Keller also came to Islam after reading some of Nasr's books, even though he disagrees with aspects of the perennial philosophy.

Some people on this forum do not appreciate these fine scholars, but I doubt many of them have read them. Many people reject wahdat al-wujud without taking the time to know this doctrine from shaykh who knows it. In the same way, many people reject the traditionalists and the perennial philosophy without taking the time to study with someone who knows their work well.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr is another story. People hear his name, and they have heard enough. It is their loss. He is among the greatest living Muslim scholars.

wa salam,
Nur Muhammad

[amina9183]

I recently read shaykh hamza yusuf's The Content of Character and it was REALLY nice. I read it in one sitting Its a collection of hadith...and at the end there are bioghraphies of the transmittors. You should definitely read it

and also...although you didnt ask about him but I recommend Shaykh Husain Abdul Sattar for lectures...

www.sacredlearning.org

He's the best mashallah