Seyyed Hossein Nasr: His Life and Ideas

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This paper discusses the life and history of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, born in 1933 in Tehran to a relatively wealthy family that was able to provide him with a premier education. According to this paper, Nasr used that education well. He was sent to the United States to study at the age of twelve in 1945, where he would spend the next thirteen years. During his time in the United States Nasr expanded his working knowledge into many fields. He did undergraduate work in physics and graduate work in geology geophysics and the history and philosophy of science. The paper further discusses how the sciences proved too limiting for Nasr. Using his extensive knowledge of the Western scientific process and its consequent secularism, Nasr made a career out of challenging these fundamental Western ideologies.

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