Existentialism and Nihilism: Reflections from the Perennialist Perspective Dr Muhammad Maroof Shah Rajbag Colony, Nagbal, Ganderbal, Kashmir,191201 marooof123@yahoo.com 9419546538 Abstract Nihilism as appropriated in existentialist-absurdist thought appears as a stubborn problem and consequent absurdism of such writers as Camus and Beckett follows which is a very unsatisfactory position from a philosophical or metaphysical viewpoint. Perennialist perspective offers an alternative approach to tackle the problem of nihilism and critique existentialist thought and its appropriation for absurdist response. The present paper applies perennialist critique to absurdist thesis and points out limitations of finitistic immanentist existentialist thought that informs absurdist philosophy. 0