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As-Salamu 'alaykum,

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf wrote,

In a time when religions suffer greatly from a lack of articulate and reasonable spokespersons, believers from any tradition who know Dr. Nasr’s work are able to raise their heads high when his name is mentioned and say, ‘He makes us all proud to be people of faith.’ I have been reading Dr. Nasr for over twenty years and his intelligence, prescience, and relevance astound me still.
(The Essential Seyyed Hossein Nasr, front material.) Shaykh Nuh Ha Mim Keller also wrote in his translation Reliance of the Traveller,

[Seyyed Hossein Nasr] is the author of a number of works that are among the best available in English on the relevance of traditional Islamic sciences and mystical disciples to the situation of modern man, including Ideals and Realities of Islam, Man and Nature, Islamic Science: an Illustrated Study, and Sufi Essays. The translator is indebted to his writings for being among the reasons he became a Muslim.
(Reliance of the Traveller (‘Umdat al-salik), p. 1095.) They may not agree with all of his views, such as the perennial philosophy, but they do not write Nasr and his work off simply because of a few real or perceived errors. Among Muslim scholars and intellectuals in the West (and you can ask just about any of them), Nasr is perhaps the most important writer and speaker to have presented an authentic and penetrating vision of traditional Islam in all of it facets (Law, theology, Sufism, philosophy, science, art, chivalry, history, etc.)...Those who have read his works on Islam and seen how vast his influence has been would be very careful before they criticize him simply for being of Iranian origin or treating the Ahl al-Kitab with a measure of respect.

God knows best,
Nur Muhammad