The book is a dedicated to the exposition of the timeless truth underlying the diverse religions. It provides the intellectual principles capable of explaining both the formal contradictions and the transcendent unity of the great religions. The complete set includes: The Buddha Eye, Journeys East Islam, fundamentalism and the betrayal of tradition, The Golden age of zen, The Golden Chain, Form and Substance in the Reliogions.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Frederick Franck
Frederick Franck was born in the Netherlands in 1909 and began his carrier as an oral surgeon before moving more seriously to his artistic pursuits in the 1930s. In 1962 Franck was the only artist invited to draw at all the four sessions of the second Vatican Council in Rome. He is the author of over thirty books, including The Zen of Seeing (1973), and the award-winning Pacem in Terris: A Love Story (2000). He is also the editor of what Does it Mean to be Human (2001).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Joseph E.B. Lumbard
Joseph E.B. Lumbard is an American Muslim who now works as Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at the American University in Cairo. A native of Washington D.C., he is the founder and first director of the Islamic Research Institute. He is conversant with a broad range of Islamic Intellectual disciplines and has first-hand experience of several oral and cultural traditions. He is the author of No God but God is my Fortres... and is currently working on Ahmad al-Ghazali and the Metaphysics of Love, the first extensive study of the life and work of the renowned sufi in a European language.
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