KNOWLEDGE AND THE SACRED Seyyed Hossein Nase Professor Nasr draws upon the full range of the great religious tendioons-Hindu Bachlhot, Jewish. Christian and Islamic and much of modern philosophical thought as well, to establish the close connection between religious experienes and specula tive thought in the various traditions" Corrents This remarkably comprehensive, indeed magisterial, exposition and analyns of sacred tradition as such, illuminated by innumerable expressions of traditional wie dom both primal and historical from East and West, constitutes Seyyed Hossein Naar's basic test from which he delivered the Gifford Lectures in Edinburgh in 1981 The ten chapters of Knowledge and the Sacred unfold and develop in a bail Kam and creative manner, each preparing for and then illuminating the next in such an organic way that at the conclusion of the total work one has the semse not just of having learned about the multiple levels and dimensions of sacred worlds, but of having experienced integrally something of the beauty and truth of such worlds"