Ali Lakhani

M. Ali Lakhani (1955- ) is a writer, lawyer, and editor whose works focus on Islam and the Traditionalist School.

Biography

Born in England in 1955, Lakhani was educated at King's School, Canterbury before getting his undergraduate and gradate degrees in law from Cambridge University. He immigrated to Vancouver where he has practiced as a trial lawyer for the last 25 years. [ [http://www.religioperennis.org/Contributors.html Religio Perennis] ]

In 1998, he founded the Traditionalist journal, "Sacred Web". The bi-annual journal has included contributions by many leading traditionalists including Titus Burckhardt, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Jean-Louis Michon, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Frithjof Schuon, Huston Smith, and HRH The Prince of Wales. [ [http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/features/influential/story.html?id=e7c194cf-207c-45c0-92ed-bfbf1e9b7501 "100 South Asians who are making a difference in British Columbia," The Vancouver Sun] ] In the words of Professor Nasr, "Along with "Sophia", "Sacred Web" is the most important journal in the English language devoted to the study of tradition." [ [http://www.sacredweb.com/ Sacred Web: A Journal of Tradition and Modernity] ]

In 2001, Ali was invited to address the International Congress on Imam 'Ali in Iran where he presented his essay on the "Metaphysics of Human Governance". This essay garnered the First Prize in English at the conferences and awarded at a special ceremony in Tehran in March of 2002. (a version of this essay is included in "The Sacred Foundations of Justice" (World Wisdom, 2006)) [ Shah-Kazemi, Reza. "The Sacred Foundations of Justice" (World Wisdom, 2006) 151.]

Bibliography

*"The Sacred Foundations of Justice" (World Wisdom, 2006), (contributed essay) ISBN 978-1933316260
*"The Betrayal of Tradition: Essays on the Spiritual Crisis of Modernity" (World Wisdom, 2005) ISBN 978-0941532556

Further reading

* [http://www.sacredweb.com/articles/sw1_editorial.html Editorial]
* [http://www.sacredweb.com/articles/sw2_editorial.html The Importance of Spiritual Literacy]
* [http://www.sacredweb.com/articles/sw3_editorial.html Pluralism and the Metaphysics of Morality]
* [http://www.sacredweb.com/articles/sw4_editorial.html "What Thirst is For"]
* [http://www.sacredweb.com/articles/sw5_editorial.html Of Detachment and Spiritual Courtesy]
* [http://www.sacredweb.com/articles/sw6_editorial.html Consecrated to the Sublime]
* [http://www.sacredweb.com/articles/sw7_editorial.html “Fundamentalism”: A Metaphysical Perspective]
* [http://www.sacredweb.com/articles/sw8_editorial.html Reclaiming the Center]
* [http://www.sacredweb.com/articles/sw9_editorial.html Understanding “Tradition”]
* [http://www.sacredweb.com/articles/sw10_editorial.html On Faith and Intellect]
* [http://www.sacredweb.com/articles/sw11_editorial.html Umberto Eco, Fascism and Tradition]
* [http://www.sacredweb.com/articles/sw12_editorial.html Towards a Traditional Understanding of Sexuality]

External Links

* [http://www.worldwisdom.com/Public/Authors/Detail.asp?AuthorID=59&WhatType=2 M. Ali Lakhani: Life and Work]
* [http://www.sacredweb.com/ Sacred Web]

References