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In contrast to these modern sciences, Nasr turns to the sapiential tradition within the World Religions for a holistic treatment of the hierarchy of knowledge that corresponds to different orders of reality. Whereas the natural and social sciences limit valid knowledge to a rationalist understanding of the phenomenal world, which gives rise to an analytical and fragmentary conception of the world, a holistic conception of knowledge turns to the Intellect and Reason, that is, to both intuition and rationality.4 However, ultimately it is the intellective or intuitive understanding of higher levels of reality that is synthetic and interpretive and potentially allows Man to know God.page 63, zaidi