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The two great Taoists Lao- tzeĪnd the Sung mystical painters in China, Rumi In God-loving India the poets, musicians, sculptors and painters inspired by the spiritual worship of Krishna and Rama, as well as the philosophic mystics from the Upanishads onward. (the Chartres of Asia) and Ajanta, Chartres itself and the Sistine Chapel.įinally, there are the mystics of feeling, and the mystical philosophers. There is, too, the Hindu, Buddhist and Christian teaching expressed in such great monuments as the Indian temples, Barabudur There are the prophets and apocalyptic writers, ZarathustrianĪnd Hebrew the Greek philosophers, Christian thinkers and the Greek, Latin, medieval and modern-whom they so deeply influenced. The lives and legends (legends often express religious truth with clarity and beauty) of the Buddha, of the parents of Mary, of Francis of Assisi, and the exquisite sculptures and paintings that illustrate them.Īnd the words of prayer and praise which the music intensifies. Then there are the devotional and philosophic works. Here and there a volume will illustrate the unethical or less ethical man and difficulties that beset him. Shakespeare’s plays show that he thought the true relation between man and man is love. There are the beautiful tales of courage, love and fidelity in the Indian and Persian epics. There are the moral anecdotes and moral maxims of the Jewish and Muslim writers of the MiddleĪges. Asoka and Akbar (both of them great patrons of art) ruled a vast Empire on the principles of religious faith.
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Confucius lived in a time much like our own, when State was at war with State and the people suffering and disillusioned and the `Classics’ he preserved or inspired show the social virtues that may unite families, classes and States into one great family, in obedience to the Will of Heaven. The contents of the books will also be very varied-ethical and social, biographical, devotional, philosophic and mystical, whether in poetry, in pictures or in prose. This Introduction represents the views of the General Editors as to the scope of the Series, but not necessarily the views of all contributors to it. The volumes will be prepared by scholars of distinction, who will try to make them, not only scholarly, but intelligible and enjoyable. The background books will often consist largely of translations. Religious art, both in East and West, often illustrates a religious text, and in suitable cases the text and the pictures will be printed together to complete each other.
#Ali hussein al ghazali series#
The Series will contain books of three kinds: translations, reproductions of ideal and religious art, and background books showing the surroundings in which the literature and art arose and developed.
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It is the object of this Series, which originated among a group of Oxford men and their friends, to place the chief ethical and religious masterpieces of the world, both Christian and non-Christian, within easy reach of the intelligent reader who is not necessarily an expert the ex-Service man who is interested in the East, the undergraduate, the adult student, the intelligent public generally. How ought men to behave? How ought nations? Does God exist? What is His Nature? How is He related to His creation? Especially, how can man approach Him? In other words, there is a general desire to know what the greatest minds, whether of East or West, have thought and said about the Truth of God and of the beings who (as most of them hold) have sprung from Him, live by Him, and return to Him. And we need a wider vision of the Universe, a clearer insight into the fundamentals of ethics and religion. We need a deeper understanding and appreciation of other peoples and their civilizations, especially their moral and spiritual achievements.
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AS A RESULT of two Wars that have devastated the World men and women everywhere feel a twofold need.