Lights from Sinai – Traditional Response to Modern World

Ligths from Eternity (Sinai) – Traditional Response to Postmodern Challenges is an open invitation to one and all to rethink the Modern world in Traditional paradigm. It seeks to engage with modernity in terms of rational, spiritual, moral, religious and aesthetic denominations inherited from tradition. This book places not only religion and spirituality in proper academic orbit, but more importantly retraces the intrusion of modernism in other common day facets of human life, and wakes the reader up to the dangers thereof. In an era of growing alienation and intellectual discontent, the book aims to help its readers in regaining their confidence on the worldview that tradition has bestowed us with.

About Author

Born in Chattabal, Srinagar, Kashmir, in an era of frozen turbulence, Amir Suhail Wani holds a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Kashmir. His interests span a wide spectrum, ranging from Mysticism to the Philosophy of Science. He is a keen student of Philosophy, Literature (Urdu, Kashmiri and Persian), Religion, Metaphysics, Sociology and Sufi traditions. He has written a number of articles for local, national and international papers, including Greater Kashmir, Eurasia Review, Amazines, etc., and research papers for a research journal of the Department of IICP, University of Kashmir. He also writes in the capacity of a Guest Columnist for the weekly tabloid, Kashmir Pen. He has extensively written on Mysticism and Modern science, Poetry, Society and Religion. Amir also delivers Guest lectures at institutions of higher learning, including the University of Kashmir and the Islamic University of Science and Technology. He is an active writer at the All India Radio (Radio Kashmir) and has contributed to broadcasting, hundreds of scripts on diverse themes.