An Introduction To Islamic Cosmological Doctrines

“An Introduction To Islamic Cosmological Doctrines” by Seyyed Hossein Nasr is a seminal text and the first modern scholarly study to explore the traditional Islamic worldview of the cosmos, providing a crucial historical and philosophical context for Islamic science. The book meticulously analyzes the holistic, hierarchical, and divinely-ordered conceptions of nature formulated by key thinkers like the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ, Al-Bīrūnī, and Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna). Nasr demonstrates how these doctrines, based on the Qur’an and prophetic teachings, created an enduring cosmic framework that governed all later scientific activity and remains central to traditional Islamic thought.