William Clark Chittick (born June 29, 1943) is an American philosopher, writer, translator, and interpreter of classical Islamic philosophical and mystical texts. He is best known for his work on Rumi and Ibn 'Arabi, and has written extensively on the school of Ibn 'Arabi, Islamic philosophy, and Islamic cosmology. He is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Stony Brook University.
William Clark Chittick (born June 29, 1943) is an American philosopher, writer, translator, and interpreter of classical Islamic philosophical and mystical...
saves, hence the soteriological function of knowledge in Islam. — WilliamChittick, The Essential Seyyed Hossein Nasr, 2007 According to Quran 7:172-173...
Chittick is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Elizabeth Chittick (1908–2009), American feminist who served as president of the National...
Ernst (1984), p. 29 Roger S. Gottlie (2006), p. 210 WilliamChittick (1983), p. 179 Chittick, William (2020), "Ibn 'Arabî", in Zalta, Edward N. (ed.), The...
authors Persian literature Persian mysticism Hamid Algar Rahim Arbab WilliamChittick Badiozzaman Forouzanfar Hossein Elahi Ghomshei Fatemeh Keshavarz Majid...
beloved, seen as embodying absolute beauty and grandeur. Scholars like WilliamChittick assert that all love stems from the divine, with God being both lover...
signs, those—their refuge is the Fire. (10:7) — Sachiko Murata and WilliamChittick, The Vision of Islam, 1994 In the same vein, Quran 6:29 highlights...
al-Alawiya (Book of Supplications (Du'a)) by Imam Ali, translated by WilliamChittick. Divan-i Ali ibn Abu Talib (poems which are attributed to Ali ibn Abu...
Spirit, between the horizontal and vertical dimensions of existence. — WilliamChittick, The Essential Seyyed Hossein Nasr, 2007 Lataif-e-sitta Nafs Ruh Sufism...
works in 28 languages. (From the publisher.) Chittick, William C. (2007). "Introduction". In Chittick, William C. (ed.). The Essential Seyyed Hossein Nasr...
811. Chittick 1998, pp. 97–98. Chittick 1989, p. 17. Nasr & Chittick 2007, p. 45. Murata & Chittick 1996, p. 127. Chittick 2002, p. 49. Chittick, W.C...
and without tawhid there can be no salvation. — Sachiko Murata and WilliamChittick, The Vision of Islam, 1994 The Quran mentions that before receiving...
by such scholars as Titus Burckhardt, Martin Lings, James Morris, WilliamChittick, Sachiko Murata, and others. These names are both mostly practitioners...
لطافت که در زبان پارسی آمده است و در تازی نیامده است» Also found in: WilliamChittick, "Me and Rumi: The Autobiography of Shams-i Tabrīzī", Annotated and...
In The Inner Journey: Views from the Islamic Tradition, edited by WilliamChittick (Ashgate: White Cloud Press, 2007). "Ishmael and the Enlightenment's...
Al-Ghazali, helped its propagation while other scholars opposed it. WilliamChittick explains the position of Sufism and Sufis this way: In short, Muslim...
worldly, impure ways of acquisition. According to Sachiko Murata and WilliamChittick, "Just as ablutions purify the body and salat purifies the soul (in...
critically edited and include many errors. A specialist of Ibn 'Arabi, WilliamChittick, referring to Osman Yahya's definitive bibliography of the Andalusian's...
preparations for comparative study of different philosophical traditions. WilliamChittick, who is a renowned scholar of Sufi thought, literature, and Islamic...
ibn al-Ḥusayn, translated with an Introduction and Annotation by William C. Chittick. The Muhammadi Trust of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (London...
he did not find any proof that Muhammad ever ate it. According to WilliamChittick, Sufism can simply be described as "the interiorization, and intensification...
There he collaborated with western and non-western academics like WilliamChittick, Toshihiko Izutsu, Sayyed Jalal-ed-Din Ashtiani, Abbas Zaryab, Toshio...
book, Shi'ite Islam, was translated into English by Hossein Nasr and WilliamChittick as a project of Colgate University. He was interviewed by Henry Corbin...
her PhD in fiqh, the Iranian Revolution caused her and her husband WilliamChittick to leave the country. Murata resettled at SUNY Stony Brook in Stony...