New Publications Sponsored By The Radius Foundation

We invite you to read the reviews and learn more about our audio DVD, Seyyed Hossein Nasr: Sixteen Lectures and the Radius-sponsored video, Shakespeare’s Spirituality: A Perspective. An Interview with Dr. Martin Lings.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr: Sixteen Lectures

This is an Audio DVD of sixteen lectures by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, representing some of the major themes of his life’s work, including the spirituality of Islam and Sufism; interreligious dialogue; pure metaphysics; tradition, nature, science and the sacred; and sacred art and music. Finally, there is a rare autobiographical talk that ties all these themes together in the context of one man’s quest for the sacred.

Audio DVD Track List

1. In the Beginning Was Consciousness
2. The Reality to Serve, Love and Know
3. Religious and Theological Consequences of Crossing Religious Frontiers
4. Whence Evil? To Confront and Overcome Evil in Human Life 3
5. The Spiritual Crisis of Modern Man 1986
6. The Recovery of the Sacred: Tradition and Perennialism in the Contemporary World
7. Spiritual and Religious Roots of the Environmental Crisis
8. God and Man: Religious Views and Scientific Perspectives
9. Philosophy, Science and Religion from the Eastern Point of View
10. Sufism and Its Power of Integration: Man’s Inner and Outer Life
11. Images of Islam in the West
12. How to be a Muslim in America
13. The Importance of the Shari’ah in Islam
14. The Universal Roots of Sacred Art
15. Spirituality and Islamic Art
16. Autobiographical Talk (with subtitles)

Read the full review by Abigail Tardiff or buy the audio DVD online at Cross Cultural Contexts.

View the image of the back cover of the audio DVD to review lecture topic grouping (PDF).

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Shakespeare’s Spirituality: A Perspective. An Interview With Dr. Martin Lings

In this video, Dr. Lings tells us that Shakespeare was a truly great spiritual man. This is illustrated in the many lines and themes found in Shakespeare’s play and sonnets which cannot be correctly understood without reference to the esiteric meaning contained in them.

Shakespeare’s works contain a common theme of spiritual purification, a kind of mysticism that dominated the minds of his contemporaries. They contain multiple levels of meaning as Dante described. The true function of art is not merely to educate but to give us a “taste of wisdom, each to his own capacity”.

Dr. Martin Lings gives his assessment of the purpose of great Art, which as it enchants us, also brings us closer to knowing the Divine. Just as Dante was a gift of Heaven to medieval Christianity, so Shakespeare is a gift of Heaven for all of Mankind, for every creed, in every age.

This film is the last surviving footage of Dr. Martin Lings discussing his lifelong dedication and scholarship concerning William Shakespeare.

Read the full review or visit the director and producer’s website and buy the DVD online.