William Chittick
William C. Chittick is a renowned scholar of Sufi thought and literature and Islamic Philosophy.
Born in Connecticut, he completed a Ph.D. in Persian literature at Tehran University in 1974. He then taught comparative religion in the humanities department at Tehran’s Aryamehr Technical University and left Iran just before the revolution in 1979.
He has also served as assistant editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica, and is currently professor of religious studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Professor Chittick is author and translator of twenty books and over one hundred articles on Islamic thought, Sufism, and Shi’ism. He has had collaborations with Seyyed Hossein Nasr, and Allameh Tabatabaei on several important projects.
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Dr.William Chittick is a Professor of Comparative Studies at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. A greatly respected scholar, he spent over twelve years in Iran before the revolution studying Sufism in theory and practice, and he has written widely on Shiism. Dr. Chittick specializes in Islamic intellectual history, especially the philosophical and mystical theology of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as reflected in Arabic and Persian texts. He has also investigated the manner in which texts have been put into practice in the Sufi orders, which have dominated much of popular Islam down to the present. He has published numerous books, including the popular “The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi”.
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