On why Islamic art is not decoration but an argument about reality.
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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.
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A mystical path of love, remembrance, poetry and inner refinement.
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