William C. Chittick is SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Stony Brook University. Widely recognized as the English-speaking world’s foremost translator and interpreter of Arabic and Persian texts in the fields of Sufism and Islamic philosophy, his numerous books and translations include such highly regarded titles as The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi (1983), The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-‘Arabī’s Metaphysics of Imagination (1989), The Heart of Islamic Philosophy: The Quest for Self-Knowledge in the Writings of Afḍal al-Dīn Kāshānī (2001), Divine Love: Islamic Literature and the Path to God (2013), and The Repose of the Spirits: A Sufi Commentary on the Divine Names (2019).
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