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William Chittick

William Chittick

· SUNY Distinguished Professor | Director, Program in Religious Studies

Stony Brook University · Asian and Asian American Studies

Active 1966–2025

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Citations1.5k
Papers16713 last 5y
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About

William C. Chittick is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Asian & Asian American Studies at Stony Brook University. His research focuses on pre-modern Islamic intellectual history and its relevance for contemporary humanistic concerns.

Research topics

  • Political Science
  • Ancient history
  • History
  • Literature
  • Philosophy
  • Theology
  • Art

Selected publications

  • The Repose of the Spirits

    SUNY Press eBooks · 2019-10-01 · 17 citations

    bookSenior author

    Major new translation of a unique and important Persian treatise on divine names in the Islamic tradition. The Repose of the Spirits is a translation of one of the earliest and most comprehensive treatises on Sufism in the Persian language. Written by Aḥmad Sam'ānī, an expert in Islamic law from a famous Central Asian scholarly family in about the year 1135, it is one of the handful of early Sufi texts available in English and is by far the most accessible. It also may well be the longest and th…

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  • Ibn ‘Arabī

    Routledge eBooks · 2020 · 15 citations

    1st authorCorresponding
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  • The school of Ibn ‘Arabī

    2020-08-07 · 2 citations

    book-chapterOpen access1st authorCorresponding
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  • Weeping in Classical Sufism

    Princeton University Press eBooks · 2018-07-12 · 2 citations

    book-chapter1st authorCorresponding
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  • The Spirituality of the Sufi Path

    2022-11-26 · 1 citations

    other1st authorCorresponding
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Frequent coauthors

  • Sachiko Murata

    Stony Brook University

    27 shared

  • Tu Weiming

    Peking University

    22 shared

  • Ahmad Sam’ānī

    8 shared

  • ʿAllāmah Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Tabātabāʾī

    4 shared

  • Leonard Lewisohn

    Harvard University Press

    3 shared

  • Glenn Alexander Magee

    3 shared

  • Françoise Aubin

    3 shared

  • Bernd Radtke

    3 shared

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