![]() ![]() He knows traditional metaphysics and the tenets of the perennial philosophy in general as well as being fully aware of many of the attacks made against religion and traditional teachings in the modern world. He has deep intimacy with both the Quran and the Bible as well as the hadlth and slrah. It needs also to be added that Eaton has mastery over the mainstream literature of both English and French as well as much of the literature of the Islamic world. In order to understand Remembering God, one must under¬ stand something of the remarkable range of knowledge and experience of its author which the preceding brief account con¬ veys to some extent. These works have established Eaton as one of the most perspicacious and, at the same time, most eloquent Islamic authors writing in English today. With the question of responsibility in the modern world from the traditional point of view and Islam and the Destiny of Man, which is one of the best written and most profound books on Islam in the English language. Richest Vein, which deals with traditional thought and espe¬ cially Guenon and Coomaraswamy King of the Castle, dealing Moreover, he has written a num¬ ber of important essays and three remarkable books: The He has lectured on Islam widely throughout the world and produced a number of very well known cassettes and videos on Islamic subjects. He entered Islam nearly half a century ago and has served in the Islamic Cultural Centre of London for the past twenty years. He traveled widely, served in the British Foreign Service, encountered the works of the mas¬ ters of traditional doctrines such as Rene Guenon, Ananda Coomaraswamy and Frithjof Schuon and was totally trans¬ formed by them. The author is an Englishman who received the best educa¬ tion available in his home country and who has also had a close relation to French culture, as a result of which he came to be at home in both English and French. It addresses both worlds with a voice of assurance nurtured by faith, with a clarity of thought reposing in wisdom, and with a timeliness produced by a long life of experience of both the mod¬ ern world and the traditional universe of Islam as well as other religions. ![]() That is why this book is a rare and precious bridge between the modern West and the Islamic world. It is a work impregnated with the warmth of faith and the light of wisdom but written by a believer who has lived his whole life in a milieu characterized by scepticism, relativism and lack of faith. His beautifully written book is a call from the heart meant to reach the hearts of readers across the bound¬ aries and borders that separate the West and the Islamic world. The Link: Religion and Tradition Seeing and Being Seen Possibilities Out of Sight The Well-Scrubbed Mirror Finally The Third Strand Lords of Misrule The Earth’s Complaint Cityscape Together, Yet Apart The Believing Women Peace and War Future Shock Cover design copyright © The Islamic Texts Society No part of this publication may be produced, installed in retrieval systems, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers. isbn 978 0946621 84 2 paperĪll rights reserved. ![]() A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Reprint 2012 British Library Cataloguing-in-Pubhcation Data. ![]() REMEMBERING GOD Reflections on Islam Gai EatonĬopyright © Gai Eaton 2000 First published in 2000 by The Islamic Texts Society Miller’s House Kings Mill Lane Great Shelford Cambridge CB22 5EN, u.k. ![]()
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