The Essential Titus Burckhardt Reflections on Sacred Art, Faiths, and Civilizations
by Burckhardt, Titus; Stoddart, WilliamFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-09-06
Publisher(s): World Wisdom
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Summary
An introduction to the thought of one of the greatest perennialist authors of the twentieth century.
Table of Contents
| List of color illustrations | p. viii |
| List of black-and-white illustrations in the text | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Foreword | p. xv |
| Introduction: Titus Burckhardt and the Perennialist School | p. 1 |
| Some Fundamental Doctrines and Principles | |
| How to Approach Medieval and Oriental Civilizations | p. 11 |
| Knowledge and Love in Sufism | p. 13 |
| Metaphysics and Virtue in Sufism | p. 16 |
| Traditional and Modern Science | |
| The Perspective of Traditional Cosmology | p. 23 |
| Traditional Symbolism and Modern Empiricism | p. 26 |
| The Theory of Evolution | p. 28 |
| Contra Teilhard de Chardin | p. 41 |
| Modern Psychology | p. 44 |
| Islamic Science | p. 65 |
| The Cosmology of the Arab Philosophers | p. 78 |
| Sacred Art as the Expression of Religious Truth | |
| The Universality of Sacred Art | p. 87 |
| Hindu Art | |
| The Hindu Temple | p. 94 |
| Hindu Sculpture | p. 98 |
| Buddhist Art | p. 100 |
| Taoist Art | p. 106 |
| Christian Art | |
| The Foundations of Christian Art | p. 112 |
| The Royal Door of Chartres Cathedral | p. 122 |
| Gargoyles | p. 132 |
| The Wooden Chest | p. 133 |
| The Decadence and the Renewal of Christian Art | p. 134 |
| Islamic Art | |
| Introduction | p. 150 |
| Characteristic Aspects | p. 151 |
| The Question of Images: Aniconism in Islamic Art | p. 151 |
| The Impact of the Arabic Language on Islamic Art | p. 153 |
| Arabic Compared With Other Languages | p. 155 |
| The Arabic Language and the Koran | p. 156 |
| History, the Governance of Men and Nations, and the Modern World | |
| The Nature of Kingship | p. 161 |
| The Law of Hierarchy and the Four Social Stations | |
| The Law of Hierarchy | p. 165 |
| The Four Social Stations | p. 165 |
| Chess as a Symbol of Rulership | p. 168 |
| St. Catherine of Siena and the City of the Soul | |
| The City as the Image of the Soul | p. 170 |
| The Monastic Orders | p. 170 |
| St. Catherine | p. 171 |
| The Inner Light | p. 172 |
| Political Dissensions | p. 174 |
| The Adventurers | p. 175 |
| The Pope | p. 175 |
| What is Conservatism? | p. 181 |
| "Riding the Tiger" | p. 187 |
| The Irruption of the Modern World as it Affected Morocco | p. 193 |
| Alchemy | |
| Insight into Alchemy | p. 205 |
| The Witness of an African Goldsmith | p. 207 |
| "Nature Can Overcome Nature" | p. 209 |
| The Story of Nicolas Flamel and his Wife Perrenelle | p. 221 |
| Aspects of the Spiritual Life | |
| The Spiritual Life: Christian | |
| Because Dante is Right | p. 231 |
| St. Bernardino of Siena and the Sacred Monogram | p. 245 |
| The Alchemy of Prayer | p. 254 |
| The Spiritual Life: Islamic | |
| Islamic Mysticism | p. 259 |
| The "Golden Chain" of Sufi Saints | p. 261 |
| The Spiritual Life: Hindu | |
| Bathing in the Ganges | p. 279 |
| Woman as the Symbol par excellence of Beauty | p. 279 |
| The Body as "Temple" of the Holy Spirit: The Temple as "Body" of the Holy Spirit | p. 280 |
| The Sun Dance and the Sacred Pipe | |
| Meeting with Yellowtail | p. 284 |
| The Sun Dance | p. 285 |
| Evocations of Traditional Moroccan Life | |
| Return to Fez | p. 293 |
| Ito's Cave | p. 299 |
| The Fools of God | p. 303 |
| The Comb-maker | p. 306 |
| "The Life of the Nomad" by the Emir 'Abd al-Qadir | p. 308 |
| Biographical Notes | p. 310 |
| Bibliography of Titus Burckhardt | p. 311 |
| Index | p. 323 |
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