Encountering the Quran: A Guide to the Inner Meaning of the Sacred Book of Islam

by Tage Lindbom, Oliver Fotros (translator), Seyyed Hossein Nasr (foreword)

154 pages, Paperback

Published June 7, 2024

About the author

Tage Lindbom (1909-2001) was a Swedish PhD in Political science, who was early in his life the party theoretician and director of the archives of the Swedish Social Democratic Party 1938-1965. He served on public boards and commissions dealing with cultural questions, including the executive board of the Royal Opera. Later in his life he converted to Islam. He became a representative of the Traditional School and the Perennial philosophy. Lindbom has been called "the grand old man" of Swedish conservativism and is the author of more than 20 books on philosophy and religion. He was a contributor to the quarterly journal, Studies in Comparative Religion, which dealt with religious symbolism and the Traditionalist perspective.