William Chittick

William C. Chittick (* 1943 in Milford , Connecticut , USA ) is an American professor of religious studies at Stony Brook University , State University of New York , author and translator of various works on Islam , Sufism , Shiism and Persian literature . His work focuses on texts from philosophy and mysticism .

life and work

Chittick grew up in Milford, Connecticut and studied history at the College of Wooster in Wooster ( Ohio ). In 1974 he did his doctorate in Iran at the University of Tehran on Persian literature with Seyyed Hossein Nasr . He then taught Comparative Religious Studies at the Aryamehr Technical University in Tehran . He left Iran before the revolution . Since 1983 he has been Professor of Religious Studies in the Department for Asian and Asian American Studies at Stony Brook University in the US state of New York .

He is the author of numerous books and articles. He translated many of the original texts directly from Persian and Arabic into English. He provided pioneering work on the Islamic mystics Rumi and Ibn ʿArabī and is also the first English translator of the important Shiite script Sahifa Sadschadiyya .

Chittick has worked at Encyclopaedia Iranica since the early 1980s .

In 2011, he was included in the list of 500 Most Influential Muslims by the Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talaal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University and the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center of Jordan .

Chittick is married to Sachiko Murata .

literature

Monographs and Articles

• The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi (Albany: State University of New York Press , 1983). ISBN 978-0-87395-724-3
• The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-'Arabi's Metaphysics of Imagination (Albany: State University of New York Press , 1989). ISBN 978-0-88706-884-3
• Imaginal Worlds: Ibn al-'Arabi and the Problem of Religious Diversity (Albany: State University of New York Press , 1994). ISBN 978-0-7914-2250-2
• with Sachiko Murata , The Vision of Islam (New York: Paragon, 1994). ISBN 978-1-55778-516-9
• The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn al-'Arabi's Cosmology (Albany: State University of New York Press , 1998). ISBN 978-0-7914-3404-8
• Sufism: A Short Introduction ( Oxford : Oneworld, 2000). ISBN 978-1-85168-211-9
• The Heart of Islamic Philosophy: The Quest for Self-Knowledge in the Teachings of Afdal al-Din Kashani (Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2001). ISBN 978-0-19-513913-6
• Ibn 'Arabi: Heir to the Prophets (Oxford: Oneworld, 2005). ISBN 978-1-85168-387-1
• The Sufi Doctrine of Rumi (Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom , 2005). ISBN 978-0-941532-88-4
• Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul: The Pertinence of Islamic Cosmology in the Modern World (Oxford: Oneworld, 2007). ISBN 978-1-85168-495-3
• with Sachiko Murata and Tu Weiming , The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi : Islamic Thought in Confucian Terms (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2009). ISBN 978-0-674-03325-2
• In Search of the Lost Heart: Explorations in Islamic Thought. Edited by Mohammed Rustom, Atif Khalil, and Kazuyo Murata (Albany: State University of New York Press , 2012). ISBN 978-1-4384-3935-8
• Divine Love: Islamic Literature and the Path to God (New Haven: Yale University Press , 2013).

as editor

• The Inner Journey: Views from the Islamic Tradition. Edited and Introduced (Sandpoint, ID: White Thread Press, 2007). ISBN 978-1-59675-017-3
• The Essential Seyyed Hossein Nasr . Edited and Introduced (Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom , 2007). ISBN 978-1-933316-38-3

important translations

• A Shi'ite Anthology (Albany: State University of New York Press , 1981). ISBN 978-0-87395-510-2
• Fakhr al-Din 'Iraqi , Divine Flashes. Translated with PL Wilson (New York: Paulist Press , 1982). ISBN 978-0-8091-2372-8
• Zayn al-'Abidin , The Psalms of Islam. Translated and Introduced (London: Muhammadi Trust, 1988). ISBN 91-631-6505-8
• Faith and Practice of Islam: Three Thirteenth Century Sufi Texts (Albany: State University of New York Press , 1992). ISBN 978-0-7914-1367-8
• 'Abd al-Rahman Jami , Gleams. Translated in Sachiko Murata, Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light: Wang Tai-yu 's Great Learning of the Pure and Real and Liu Chih 's Displaying the Concealment of the Real Realm (Albany: State University of New York Press , 2000). ISBN 978-0-7914-4638-6
• Mulla Sadra , The Elixir of the Gnostics. Translated, Edited, and Introduced (Provo: Brigham Young University Press , 2003). ISBN 978-0-934893-70-1
• Shams al-Din Tabrizi , Me and Rumi: The Autobiography of Shams-i Tabrizi. Annotated and Translated (Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 2004). ISBN 978-1-887752-52-7
• Ibn 'Arabi, select translations from The Meccan Revelations. Translated in Michel Chodkiewicz (ed.), The Meccan Revelations (New York: Pir Press, 2004). ISBN 978-1-879708-16-7
• Khwaja Khurd , Treatise on the Gnostic and The Light of Oneness. Translated in Chittick, In Search of the Lost Heart.
• Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi , The Texts. Translated in Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Mehdi Aminrazavi (eds.), An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, vol. 4 (London: IB Tauris in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies , 2012). ISBN 978-1-848857490

Web links

• stonybrook.edu: Biography , Publications
• huffingtonpost.com: William C. Chittick, Ph.D.
• coreis.it (500 Muslims: Chittick, Dr William)

• "Mysticism in Islam" - lecture delivered at the Center for International Studies, Brigham Young University, May 2003
• Free recording the 2001 Paths to the Heart Conference - lecture and Q&A section
• Audio lecture on the Myth of the Fall of Adam in Ahmad Sam'ani's Refreshment of Spirits .

References and footnotes

1. ↑ "Aryamehr, the love of the Aryans" ( Wahied Wahdat-Hagh : Die Islamische Republik Iran . 2003, p. 164)
2. ↑ “Prince al-Walid Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding”, after the Saudi Arabian prince and multi-billionaire al-Walid ibn Talal .
3. ↑ coreis.it (2011)

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