Ali Lakhani

M. Ali Lakhani (born 1955) is a writer, lawyer, and editor whose works focus on Islam and the Traditionalist School.

Biography

Born in England in 1955, Lakhani was educated at The King's School, Canterbury before getting his undergraduate and graduate degrees in law from Cambridge University. He immigrated to Vancouver where he has practiced as a trial lawyer for the last 25 years.[1]

In 1998, he founded the Traditionalist journal, Sacred Web. The bi-annual journal has included contributions by many leading traditionalists including Titus Burckhardt, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Jean-Louis Michon, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Frithjof Schuon, Huston Smith, and HRH The Prince of Wales.[2] In the words of Professor Nasr, "Along with Sophia, Sacred Web is the most important journal in the English language devoted to the study of tradition."[3]

In 2001, Ali was invited to address the International Congress on Imam 'Ali in Iran where he presented his essay on the Metaphysics of Human Governance. This essay garnered the First Prize in English at the conferences and awarded at a special ceremony in Tehran in March 2002. (A version of this essay is included in "The Sacred Foundations of Justice" (World Wisdom, 2006)[4])

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  1. ↑ Religio Perennis
  2. ↑ "100 South Asians who are making a difference in British Columbia," The Vancouver Sun
  3. ↑ Sacred Web: A Journal of Tradition and Modernity
  4. ↑ Reza Shah-Kazemi. "The Sacred Foundations of Justice" (World Wisdom, 2006) 151.