William Stoddart
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William Smith Stoddart (25 June 1925 – 9 November 2023) was a Scottish-Canadian physician, author and spiritual traveller, who wrote several books on the Perennial Philosophy and on comparative religion.[1]
Biography
William Smith Stoddart was born in Carstairs, Scotland on 25 June 1925. He graduated in medicine from Glasgow University.[2]
Stoddart has been called a "master of synthesis"
Stoddart lived most of his life in London, England, before moving, in 1982, to Windsor, Ontario, Canada.[4] He died in Windsor on 9 November 2023, at the age of 98.[5]
Bibliography
Books
As author
- Outline of Sufism: The Essentials of Islamic Spirituality (World Wisdom, 2013)
- What does Islam mean in today's world? (World Wisdom, 2012)
- Remembering in a World of Forgetting (World Wisdom, 2008)
- Invincible Wisdom (Sophia Perennis, 2007)
- Hinduism and Its Spiritual Masters (Fons Vitae, 2006)
- Outline of Buddhism (Foundation for Traditional Studies, 1998)
- Outline of Hinduism (Foundation for Traditional Studies, 1993)
- Sufism: The Mystical Doctrines and Methods of Islam (ISBN 0-913757-47-0)
As editor
- The Essential Titus Burckhardt: Reflections on Sacred Art, Faiths, and Civilizations (World Wisdom, 2003)
- Religion of the Heart: Essays Presented to Frithjof Schuon on His Eightieth Birthday (Foundation for Traditional Studies, 1991) – co-published with Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Articles
- Frithjof Schuon and the Perennialist School
- Religious and Ethnic Conflict
- Rama Coomaraswamy: between Perennialism and Catholicism (in collaboration with Mateus Soares de Azevedo)
- Religion and Anti-Religion in Eastern Europe
- The Role of Culture in Education
- Right Hand of Truth: Life and Work of Titus Burckhardt
- Aspects of Islamic Esoterism
See also
- Perennial Philosophy
- Traditionalist School
- Frithjof Schuon
- René Guénon
- Titus Burckhardt
- Ananda Coomaraswamy
- Martin Lings
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- Sufism
- Angus Macnab
- Bernard Philip Kelly
- Whitall Perry
External links
References
- ^ See "The Peregrine Falcon", by Mateus Soares de Azevedo, in the Canadian journal Sacred Web, number 35, Summer 2015
- ^ Mateus Soares de Azevedo, "Biography of William Stoddart" in Stoddart, Remembering in a World of Forgetting, Bloomington/IN, U.S.A.: World Wisdom Books, 2008, p. 135 ff.
- ^ Sophia, Volume 4, Number 2, Winter 1998
- ^ "An Illustrated Outline of Buddhism: The Essentials of Buddhist Spirituality (Perennial Philosophy)". Kennys.ie. Retrieved 22 October 2023.
- ^ "William Stoddart's life and work". Retrieved 19 December 2023.
