Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr is University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He has held this position since 1984. Dr. Nasr was born in Tehran in 1933 and he received his early education there with special emphasis upon classical education in religion and Persian lieterature. He later studied physics and mathematics at MIT where he graduated with honors in 1054. He continued advanced studies at Harvard University where he received his M.S., (1956) and his Ph.D. in the history of science and philosophy with special emphasis upon Islamic science (1958).

Dr. Nasr taught at Harvard University and became full professor of the history of science and philosophy at Tehran University in 1963. Several years later, he became full professor at Temple University in 1979. He has also been invited as visiting professor by the American University of Beirut, Princeton University and the University of Utah.

Dr. Nasr is founder and first President of the Iranian Academy of Philosophy and he is a member of the organizing committee of the first world educational conference in Mecca. He has lectured extensively throughout the Islamic World, Western Europe and America, India, Japan and Australia. He is the first Muslim ever to deliver the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh in 1981. Among the many recent honors extended to him, a complete volume of Library of Living Philosophers will be dedicated to his works and thought. He is a member of the Greek Academy of Philosophy.

Dr. Nasr has written over 250 articles that have apeared in leading academic journals throughout the world. He has authored over 20 books and has contributed to 5 encylopedias notably the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. His book, Man and Nature: The Spiritual Crisis of Madern Man appeared in Turkish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.