Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr, one of the world's leading scholars on Islamic science and spirituality, is University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University. He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an undergraduate degree in Physics and Mathematics. He went on to Harvard University where he studied Geology and Geophysics, and then completed a Ph.D. in the History of Science and Philosophy. Professor Nasr is the author of over twenty books and hundreds of articles in numerous languages and translations. including Man and Nature: the Spiritual Crisis of Modern Man (Kazi Publications, 1998), Religion and the Order of Nature (Oxford, 1996) and Knowledge and the Sacred (SUNY, 1989).

Professor Nasr's great accomplishments cannot be summarized in one paragraph. Please read his biography to learn more.