William Chittick

Biography

Major works

Books

• The Sufi Doctrine of Rumi: An Introduction. A new edition, The Sufi Doctrine of Rumi, released in 2005.
• The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi. It has been translated into Russian, Indonesian, Persian and Bosnian.
• The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-'Arabi's Metaphysics of Imagination. It has been partially translated into Indonesian and fully into Persian.
• Imaginal Worlds: Ibn al-'Arabi and the Problem of Religious Diversity. It has been translated into Turkish, Indonesian, Spanish and Persian.
• With Sachiko Murata, The Vision of Islam. It has been translated into Persian, Turkish, Indonesian, Albanian, Urdu and Russian.
• Varolmanın Boyutları A collection of seventeen essays edited and translated by Turan Koç.
• The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn al-'Arabi's Cosmology.
• Sufism: A Short Introduction. It has been translated into Indonesian, Turkish, Persian, Albanian, Italian and Russian.
• The Heart of Islamic Philosophy:The Quest for Self-Knowledge in the Teachings of Afdal al-Din Kashani. It has been translated into Persian.
• Ibn 'Arabi: Heir to the Prophets. It has been translated into German, Albanian, Turkish, Persian and Arabic.
• The Sufi Doctrine of Rumi: Illustrated Edition. It has been translated into Spanish and Albanian.
• Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul: The Pertinence of Islamic Cosmology in the Modern World. It has been translated into Persian, Indonesian, Turkish and Albanian.
• With Sachiko Murata and Tu Weiming, The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi: Islamic Thought in Confucian Terms.
• In Search of the Lost Heart: Explorations in Islamic Thought. An anthology of Chittick's writings edited by Mohammed Rustom, Atif Khalil, and Kazuyo Murata. It has been translated into Persian.
• Divine Love: Islamic Literature and the Path to God. It has been translated into Persian.

  Selected Articles

• "Il sufismo operativo in Rumi", Conoscenza religiosa, Vol. 3, pp. 272–288
• "?", Sophia Perennis, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 97–100
• "'", Sophia Perennis, Vol. 1 No. 2, pp. 88–128
• ""Matâli`-i îmân" by Sadr al-Dîn Qûnawî , edition of the Persian text", Sophia Perennis, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 57–80
• "", Sophia Perennis, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 43–58
• "", Studia Islamica, No. 49, pp. 135–157
• ""Lama'at, Selections Translated" ", Gnosis, Vol. 7-8, pp. 23-46
• "", Alserat, Vol. 4, No. 1,, pp. 23-30. Translated by Grazia Marchianò, "Un commento esoterico di Sadr Al-Din Qunawi." Conoscenza religiosa, 1983/1, pp. 10–17
• "", Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Vol. 73, pp. 33–45
• "", International Philosophical Quarterly 21 :171-184
• "", Religious Studies, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 87–104
• "", Studies in Mystical Literature, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 193–209
• "", Muslim World, 72, pp. 107–28. Turkish translation by Turan Koç, "Bes Ilahî Hazret: el-Konevî'den el-Kayserî'ye," Uluslararasi Davud el-Kayserî Sempozyumu. Ankara: Kayserî Büyüksehir Belediyese Kültür Müdürlügü, 1998, pp. 347–63
• "", Parabola, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 18–25
• "", Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society, Vol. 2, 1984, pp. 41–94
• "", Studies in Mystical Literature, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 21–32; also Sufi, Vol. 7, pp. 5–9
• "Islam and the Loss of Equilibrium", Journal of Dharma, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 42–59; also Islamic Quarterly, Vol. 20, pp. 165–178
• "", Alserat, Vol. 12, No. 1-2, pp. 3–12. Translated into Persian by Hasan Lâhûtî as "Imâm Husayn dar Nagâh-i Mawlawî", Mîrâth-i Jâwîdân, Vol. 17, pp. 92–95; also in Gulistân, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 107–18
• "", The American Theosophist, Vol. 74, No. 5, pp. 181–192
• "", The World and I, Vol. 1, No. 6, pp. 671–678
• """ Alserat, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 30–51
• "", The World and I, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 655–665
• "", The Muslim World, 78, pp. 51–82. Turkish translation by T. Koç. Yeldi Iklim 2, May 1992, pp. 41–46. Italian translation by Walter Librale, “La morte et il ‘mundo immaginale’: l’escatologia akbariana", Perennia Verba, Vol. 4, pp. 59–106
• "", Temenos, Vol. 10, pp. 99–119
• "The Love Song of Ayatollah Khomeini" ", The New Republic, p. 35
• ""Khwâja Khurd's Treatise on the Gnostic", Sufi, Vol. 5, pp. 11–12. Persian as "Risâla-yi 'ârif-i Khwâja Khurd", Sûfî, Vol. 4, pp. 22–25
• "", Islamic Quarterly, Vol. 34, pp. 145–163
• "" The World and I, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 498–513
• "Ebn al-`Arabi as Lover", Sufi, Vol. 9, pp. 6–9. Persian translation by S. Hamza'î, Sûfî, Vol. 13, pp. 12–17.
• "", Sufi, Vol. 12, pp. 16–18. French translation by E. de Longrée as "Les gestes de la prière en Islam", Initiations, Vol. 7, pp. 15–19
• "", Sufi, Vol. 14, pp. 5–10
• "", Muslim World, Vol. 82, pp. 218–41
• "Khwâja Khurd wa risâla-yi Nûr-i wahdat-i way", Iran Nameh, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 101–20
• "", Mystics Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 4–16
• "Meetings with Imaginal Men", Sufi, Vol. 19, pp. 8–13.
• "", Sufi, Vol. 27, pp. 5–11
• "", Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society, Volume 17, 1995
• "", Horizons Maghrébins, Vol. 30, pp. 55–61; reprinted in Iqbal Review, Vol. 38, 1997, pp. 141–50
• "", Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society, Vol. 20, 1996, pp. 15–32
• "?", Iqbal Review, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 11–25
• "", Journal of Religious Thought, Vol. 1, pp. 3–20
• "Words to the Wise", Sufi, Vol. 42, pp. 41–43
• "", Islamic Studies, Vol. 39, No. 4, Special Issue: Islam and Science, pp. 581–596
• "", Transcendent Philosophy, Vol. 1, pp. 1–18
• "", Sacred Web, Vol. 5, pp. 17–29
• "", Discourse, Vol. 24, No. 1, Mortals to Death, pp. 51–62
• "", Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 423–428
• "", Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society, Vol. 35, 2004, pp. 25–45
• "", Parabola, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2005 : 32
• "", Parabola, Vol. 30, No. 3, 2005 : 6
• "", Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society, Vol. 46, 2009, pp. 27–37
• "", Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society, Vol. 48, 2010, pp. 1–17
• "", Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society, Vol. 54, 2013, pp. 37–59
• "", Religion Compass, Vol. 8, No. 7, pp. 229–38

  Edited volumes

• With Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Peter Zirnis, An Annotated Bibliography of Islamic Science.
• 'Abd al-Rahmân Jâmî, Naqd al-nusûs fi sharh naqsh al-fusûs, Persian and Arabic text with critical apparatus, notes, English and Persian introductions, indexes.
• The Works of Seyyed Hossein Nasr Through His Fortieth Birthday. Edited and Introduced.
• The Inner Journey: Views from the Islamic Tradition. Edited and Introduced.
• The Essential Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Edited and Introduced.

  Translations

• Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i, A Shi'ite Anthology.
• Javad Nurbakhsh, Sufism : Meaning, Knowledge, and Unity.
• Fakhr al-Din 'Iraqi, Divine Flashes. Translated with P.L. Wilson.
• Javad Nurbakhsh, Sufism : Fear and Hope, Contraction and Expansion, Gathering and Dispersion, Intoxication and Sobriety, Annihilation and Subsistence.
• Ali ibn Abi Talib, Supplications ,.
• Zayn al-'Abidin, The Psalms of Islam. Translated and introduced. Reprinted as The Psalms of Islam: English Version.
• Javad Nurbakhsh, Sufism IV: Repentance, Abstinence, Renunciation, Wariness, Humility, Humbleness, Sincerity, Steadfastness, Courtesy.
• William Chittick, Faith and Practice of Islam: Three Thirteenth Century Sufi Texts.
• 'Abd al-Rahman Jami, Gleams. Translated in Sachiko Murata, Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light: Wang Tai-yu's Great Learning of the Pure and Real and Liu Chih's Displaying the Concealment of the Real Realm.
• Mulla Sadra, The Elixir of the Gnostics. Translated, Edited, and Introduced.
• Shams al-Din Tabrizi, Me and Rumi: The Autobiography of Shams-i Tabrizi. Annotated and Translated.
• Ibn 'Arabi, select translations from The Meccan Revelations. Translated by Michel Chodkiewicz, The Meccan Revelations.
• Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi, The Texts. Translated in Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Mehdi Aminrazavi, An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, vol. 4. Note: The translation of this text in this volume is slightly abridged. For the complete translation, see https://www.academia.edu/8101330/Sadr_al-Din_Qunawi_The_Texts_al-Nusus_
• Aqa Muhammad Rida Qumsha'i, Translated in Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Mehdi Aminrazavi, An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, vol. 5.
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• Ahmad Sam'ani, The Repose of the Spirits: A Sufi Commentary on the Divine Names. Translated and Introduced.