3 min
Interview
Can Many Religions All Be True?
Three minutes on the question this whole site is built around.
About the teacher
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Iranian-American philosopher and scholar of Islam (born 1933), University Professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University. He studied physics at MIT and the history of science at Harvard, returned to Iran to teach, and has written for sixty years on Islamic metaphysics, Sufism, the sacred in nature and what the traditions hold in common.
Upcoming events
Meet Seyyed Hossein Nasr in person.
Talks, day programmes and retreats currently listed in the Paths Are Many calendar.
No upcoming events are currently listed.
Talks & videos
Watch before you attend.
Short introductions and longer conversations, to hear this teacher in their own words.
65 min
Talk
Finding the Sacred in a Distracted Age
A recent lecture on what is lost when a civilisation stops treating anything as sacred.
76 min
Talk
Islam: Truth and Beauty
On why Islamic art is not decoration but an argument about reality.
88 min
Talk
In the Beginning Was Consciousness
An hour and a half at Harvard on consciousness as the ground of things rather than a product of them.
Path
The wider context.
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Love & remembrance
Sufism
A mystical path of love, remembrance, poetry and inner refinement.
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