Sachiko Murata is Professor of Religion and Asian Studies in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Stony Brook University. Her groundbreaking contributions on Sufism and gender and the Sufi tradition in China have changed the landscape of not only the fields of Sufism and Islamic thought, but also the broader disciplines of religious studies and global philosophy. Professor Murata’s highly acclaimed books include The Tao of Islam: A Sourcebook on Gender Relationships in Islamic Thought (1992), Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light: Wang Tai-yü’s ‘Great Learning of the Pure and Real and Liu Chih’s Displaying the Concealment of the Real Realm’ (2000), and The First Islamic Classic in Chinese: Wang Daiyu’s ‘Real Commentary on the True Teaching’ (2017).
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