Sufism: Veil and Quintessence A New Translation with Selected Letters

by Frithjof Schuon, Seyyed Hossein Nasr George Washington University, author of Knowledge and the Sacred, James Cutsinger

Overview

This new edition of Frithjof Schuon's important work, Sufism: Veil and Quintessence, is a fully revised translation from the French original and has an extensive Appendix containing previously unpublished letters and other private writings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935493396
Publisher:	World Wisdom
Publication date:	12/11/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	760 KB

About the Author

Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998) is the foremost representative of the “perennialist” or “traditionalist” school of comparative religious thought, well-known for its espousal of the “transcendent unity of religions.” Schuon is the author of over thirty books on metaphysics, comparative religion, art, philosophy, poetry, and spirituality.

James S. Cutsinger is an author, editor, and teacher whose writings focus primarily on Perennialism and the theology and spirituality of the Christian East. He is professor of Theology and Religious Thought at the University of South Carolina.