Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Shimmering Reality: Contemplative and Mystical Concepts of Relativity

2. Christian and Buddhist Insights into a Metaphysics of Salvation

3. On the Good beyond Good and Evil

4. On Hindu Bhedābheda and Sufi Barzakh

5. Knowing the Unknowable: Upāya and Gods of Belief

6. Transmutation, the Sacred Word, and the Feminine

Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Patrick Laude is Professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He is the author of several books, including Pathways to an Inner Islam: Massignon, Corbin, Guenon, and Schuon and (with Jean-Baptiste Aymard) Frithjof Schuon: Life and Teachings, both published by SUNY Press.

Reviews

"I have rarely read a work that is so lucid in explaining complex philosophical theories across multiple traditions, so articulate in constructing concise ideas, and so strategic in assembling a framework for analysis. This is a unique and special work of comparative metaphysics rarely found in contemporary works on philosophies of religion." - Lee Irwin, author of Alchemy of Soul: The Art of Spiritual Transformation