Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr is University Professor of Islamic Studies at the George Washington University. Dr. Nasr has lectured widely throughout the United States, Western Europe, most of the Islamic world, India, Australia, and Japan.  Dr. Nasr is the author of over thirty books and over 300 articles.  His works concern not only various aspects of Islamic studies, but also comparative philosophy and religion, philosophy of art, and the philosophical and religious dimensions of the environmental crisis.