Paths to Transcendence: According to Shankara, Ibn Arabi & Meister Eckhart (Spiritual Masters. East and West)

by Reza Shah-Kazemi

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This groundbreaking work elucidates in depth the theme of transcendence as understood by three of the greatest saints in the history of their respective religious traditions: Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity respectively. By way of developing the doctrine of the Transcendent Absolute, key writings of each of these magisterial figures highlight the metaphysical and mystical perspectives which illuminate both the conceptual and the experiential domains of the most interior aspects of spiritual life, and ultimately point to the transcendent unity of the religions. In our day when there is much strife between religious factions, this rigorous comparative analysis, based on primary texts, establishes a true foundation for an esoteric ecumenism. This is necessary reading for all serious students of world religions.

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A "chef d'oeuvre", 2006-05-13
This long-awaited book certainly represents one of the more important work recently released by World Wisdom.

Reza Shah-Kazemi is a Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London and one of the most preeminent contemporary Perennialist writers. Although initially written as a Doctoral Thesis, this book is dedicated to the memory of Frithjof Schuon, and presented here as a demonstration of the "transcendent unity of religions" based on a comparative study of three major figures of Hinduism, Islam and Christianity (Shankara, Ibn Arabi and Meister Eckhart) and their approach of the non-dual Absolute both at the doctrinal and practical level. Each study is divided systematically into three parts: a first one on the doctrine of the Absolute, the second one on the spiritual path and the last on the return of the God-realized man to the creatures. The book concludes on the "essential elements of communality" between the three spiritual masters. In very substantial appendices, Reza Shah-Kazemi criticizes some of the more contemporary attempts to "reduce the transcendence" by academia but also by pseudo-Perennialists such as A. Huxley.

Reza Shah-Kazemi's work is indeed both a metaphysical and erudite demonstration of such communality at the summit of the great religious traditions and a merciful response to the predominant relativism in the field of Comparative Religion. A master piece ....

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