| Frontispiece | |
| General Introduction to the Library of Living Philosophers | |
| Founder's General Introduction to the Library of Living Philosophers | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Preface | |
| Pt. 1 | Intellectual Autobiography of Seyyed Hossein Nasr | 1 |
| Pt. 2 | Descriptive and Critical Essays on the Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, with replies | 87 |
| 1 | "From the Niche of Prophecy": Nasr's Position On Islamic Philosophy Within The Islamic Tradition In Excerpts And Commentary | 89 |
| Reply to Muhammad Suheyl Umar | 132 |
| 2 | Nasr's Defense of the Perennial Philosophy | 139 |
| Reply to Huston Smith | 159 |
| 3 | Perennial Philosophy in a Public Context | 169 |
| Reply to Robert Cummings Neville | 190 |
| 4 | The Philosophia Perennis and the Religions of the World | 203 |
| Reply to Sallie B. King | 221 |
| 5 | Revisioning Classical Hinduism Through Philosophia Perennis | 233 |
| Reply to Arvind Sharma | 248 |
| 6 | Reflections on Tradition and Modernity: A Response to Seyyed Hossein Nasr from a Neo-Confucian Perspective | 253 |
| Reply to Shu-hsien Liu | 270 |
| 7 | Nasr and the Quest for the Sacred | 277 |
| Reply to Ernest Wolf-Gazo | 304 |
| 8 | Buddhist Creative Metaphysics and Islamic Thought | 313 |
| Reply to Kenneth K. Inada | 327 |
| 9 | Seyyed Hossein Nasr on Time and Eternity | 335 |
| Reply to G. F. McLean and R. K. Khuri | 358 |
| 10 | Seyyed Hossein Nasr's Philosophy of Art | 371 |
| Reply to Eliot Deutsch | 381 |
| 11 | Knowledge of the Sacred: The Mystical Poetry of Seyyed Hossein Nasr | 393 |
| Reply to Luce Lopez-Baralt | 420 |
| 12 | A Nasr Sentence: Some Comments | 429 |
| Reply to A. K. Saran | 440 |
| 13 | The Sacred versus the Secular: Nasr on Science | 445 |
| Reply to Ibrahim Kalin | 463 |
| 14 | Sophia Perennis and Modern Science | 469 |
| Reply to Wolfgang Smith | 486 |
| 15 | Seyyed Hossein Nasr: Religion, Nature, and Science | 493 |
| Reply to Giovanni Monastra | 512 |
| 16 | The Quest for the Universal Global Science | 519 |
| Reply to Ashok K. Gangadean | 542 |
| 17 | Philosophia Perennis and Scientia Sacra in a Postmodern World | 551 |
| Reply to Mehdi Aminrazavi | 563 |
| 18 | Nasr's Absolute Everything and Nothing | 571 |
| Reply to Archie J. Bahm | 581 |
| 19 | The Concept of Spiritual Knowledge in the Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr | 589 |
| Reply to Judy D. Saltzman | 612 |
| 20 | The Essential Relation Between Revelation and Philosophy in Islam and Its Importance in Understanding the Nature and History of Islamic Philosophy | 619 |
| Reply to Zailan Moris | 632 |
| 21 | Islamic Philosophical Theology | 639 |
| Reply to David B. Burrell | 658 |
| 22 | Sufism in the Thought of S. H. Nasr | 669 |
| Reply to Leonard Lewisohn | 679 |
| 23 | The Absent Men in Islamic Cosmology | 685 |
| Reply to William C. Chittick | 710 |
| 24 | Know the World to Know Yourself | 717 |
| Reply to Pierre Lory | 728 |
| 25 | The Transcendent Spirit, Private Language Fallacy, and Islamization of Ibn Sina: Reflections on the Works of S. H. Nasr | 735 |
| Reply to Parviz Morewedge | 753 |
| 26 | Nur al-Fu'ad, a Nineteenth-Century Persian Text in Illuminationist Philosophy by Shihab al-Din Kumijani | 763 |
| Reply to Hossein Ziai | 775 |
| 27 | Thinker of the Sacred | 781 |
| Reply to Enes Karic | 792 |
| 28 | Seyyed Hossein Nasr: Apologist or Reformer of Islam? | 799 |
| Reply to Marietta Stepaniants | 809 |
| 29 | Perennial Philosophy Now: The Case of Wilayat-iFaqih | 813 |
| Reply to Lucian W. Stone, Jr. | 827 |
| Pt. 3 | Bibliography of Seyyed Hossein Nasr | 831 |
| Index | 965 |
Format: Hardcover, 1001 pages
