William Stoddart

William Stoddart (born 25 June 1925, in Carstairs) is a Scottish physician, author and "spiritual traveller", who has written several books on the Perennial Philosophy and on comparative religion.[1]

For the American architect, see William Lee Stoddart. For the English footballer, see Bill Stoddart.

He has been called a “master of synthesis” [2] and is one of the important Perennialist writers in the present day. For many years he was assistant editor of the British journal Studies in Comparative Religion. He has translated into English, from the original French or German, several of the books of the perennialist masters Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) and Titus Burckhardt (1908–1984).

Bibliography

Stoddart has written several books, for clarity's sake, the books he helped translate are not listed.

  • "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)
  • "The Essential Titus Burckhardt: Reflections on Sacred Art, Faiths, and Civilizations" (World Wisdom, 2003)
  • "Outline of Buddhism" (Foundation for Traditional Studies, 1998)
  • "Outline of Hinduism" (Foundation for Traditional Studies, 1993)
  • "Religion of the Heart: Essays Presented to Frithjof Schuon on His Eightieth Birthday" (Foundation for Traditional Studies, 1991)
  • "Sufism – The Mystical Doctrines and Methods of Islam" (Paragon House Publishers, New York City; Revised edition, 1985, ISBN 0-913757-47-0)

He is also the editor of the anthology on the Swiss Perennialist, The Essential Titus Burckhardt (World Wisdom, 2004).

Articles
gollark: ...
gollark: It's somewhat important to incentivize people to make things which aren't conveniently sellable physical objects.
gollark: Plants should really have solar-powered microcontrollers with cellular/satellite links so they can receive emails.
gollark: I mean, natural ones yes, artificially designed ones I'm fine with. Although any sufficiently short one is probably going to turn up in some organism somewhere through sheer chance, even if it's not doing the same thing.
gollark: I think intellectual property definitely needs reduction. Copyright lasts waaaaay too long, patent weirdness basically stopped 3D printer development for ages, and trademarking-or-whatever "sky" is ridiculous. Also, you can patent some software stuff you probably shouldn't be able to.

See also

References
  1. See "The Peregrine Falcon", by Mateus Soares de Azevedo, in the Canadian journal Sacred Web, number 35, Summer 2015
  2. Sophia, Volume 4, Number 2, Winter 1998
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