Sachiko Murata
Sachiko Murata is a professor of religion and Asian studies at Stony Brook University. She is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.Life
She received her B.A. from Chiba University, Japan, and later attended Iran's University of Tehran, where she was the first woman to study fiqh. She received her PhD in Persian literature, but shortly before completing her PhD in fiqh, the Iranian Revolution caused her and her husband William Chittick to leave the country.
Murata resettled at SUNY Stony Brook in Stony Brook, New York, where she teaches Islam, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism.Works
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