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    Burckhardt, Titus
    [Selections. English. 2003]
    The essential Titus Burckhardt: reflections on sacred art, faiths and civilizations / edited by
    William Stoddart ; foreword by Seyyed Hossein Nasr.
    p. cm. ? (Perennial philosophy series)
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 311) and index.
    ISBN 0-941532-36-4 (alk: paper)
    ISBN 0-941532-95-X (in Ebook format)
    1. Religion. 2. Religious Art. 3. Tradition (Philosophy) I. Stoddart, William. II. Title. III.
    Series.
    Contents
    List of color illustrations viii
    List of black-and-white illustrations in the text ix
    Preface xi
    Foreword by Seyyed Hossein Nasr xv
    Introduction
    Titus Burckhardt and the Perennialist School 1
    1. Some Fundamental Doctrines and Principles
    How to Approach Medieval and Oriental Civilizations 11
    Knowledge and Love in Sufism 13
    Metaphysics and Virtue in Sufism 16
    2. Traditional and Modern Science
    The Perspective of Traditional Cosmology 23
    Traditional Symbolism and Modern Empiricism 26
    The Theory of Evolution 28
    Contra Teilhard de Chardin 41
    Modern Psychology 44
    Islamic Science 65
    The Cosmology of the Arab Philosophers 78
    3. Sacred Art as the Expression of Religious Truth
    The Universality of Sacred Art 87
    Hindu Art
    The Hindu Temple 94
    Hindu Sculpture 98
    Buddhist Art 100
    Taoist Art 106
    Christian Art
    The Foundations of Christian Art 112
    The Royal Door of Chartres Cathedral 122
    Gargoyles 132
    The Wooden Chest 133
    The Decadence and the Renewal of Christian Art 134
    Islamic Art
    Introduction 150
    Characteristic Aspects 151
    The Question of Images: Aniconism in Islamic Art 151
    The Impact of the Arabic Language on Islamic Art 153
    Arabic Compared With Other Languages 155
    The Arabic Language and the Koran 156
    4. History, the Governance of Men and Nations,
    and the Modern World
    The Nature of Kingship 161
    The Law of Hierarchy and the Four Social Stations
    The Law of Hierarchy 165
    The Four Social Stations 165
    Chess as a Symbol of Rulership 168
    St. Catherine of Siena and the City of the Soul
    The City as the Image of the Soul 170
    The Monastic Orders 170
    St. Catherine 171
    The Inner Light 172
    Political Dissensions 174
    The Adventurers 175
    The Pope 175
    What is Conservatism? 181
    ?Riding the Tiger? 187
    The Irruption of the Modern World
    as it Affected Morocco 193
    5. Alchemy
    Insight into Alchemy 205
    The Witness of an African Goldsmith 207
    ?Nature Can Overcome Nature? 209
    The Story of Nicolas Flamel and his Wife Perrenelle 221
    6. Aspects of the Spiritual Life
    The Spiritual Life: Christian
    Because Dante is Right 231
    St. Bernardino of Siena and the Sacred Monogram 245
    The Alchemy of Prayer 254
    The Spiritual Life: Islamic
    Islamic Mysticism 259
    The ?Golden Chain? of Sufi Saints 261
    The Spiritual Life: Hindu
    Bathing in the Ganges 279
    Woman as the Symbol par excellence of Beauty 279
    The Body as ?Temple? of the Holy Spirit: The
    Temple as ?Body? of the Holy Spirit 280
    The Sun Dance and the Sacred Pipe
    Meeting with Yellowtail 284
    The Sun Dance 285
    7. Evocations of Traditional Moroccan Life
    Return to Fez 293
    Ito?s Cave 299
    The Fools of God 303
    The Comb-maker 306
    ?The Life of the Nomad? by the Emir ?Abd al-QÂdir 308
    Biographical Notes 310
    Bibliography of Titus Burckhardt 311
    Index 323

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