Converging Wisdom: The Lost Tradition of Truth Seeking in Islam

Shan Rizvi
4 min readApr 19, 2020

History is replete with figures who got persecuted, even assassinated, for speaking of love and transcendence. There seems to be eternal conflict between the pursuit of truth and the pursuit of power, a conflict that is at the roots of many religions, including Islam.

After the Prophet Muhammad passed away, his followers split in two groups: those who…

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Shan Rizvi

Technology entrepreneur based in New York. Interested in art, music, philosophy, psychology, machine learning, neuroscience, physics, and nature.