![]() ![]() This school of thought has shaped Nasr’s life and thinking ever since. During his studies there he became acquainted with the works of the Traditionalist authority Frithjof Schuon. In the US, Nasr first attended Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey, graduating in 1950 as the valedictorian of his class and also winner of the Wyclifte Award.Ī scholarship offered by MIT in physics made him the first Iranian undergraduate to attend that university. There, he also began studying under Giorgio de Santillana and others in various other branches such as metaphysics and philosophy. Nasr went to Firuz Bahram High School in Tehran before being sent to the United States for education at thirteen. Hossein Nasr at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on October 1, 2007. ![]()
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