Interview of 2009 on the Radio Show “Science, Health and Healing” The Anthropology of Compassion in Ibn Arabi’s Futuhat Ibn Arabi: The Doorway into an Intellectual Tradition Ibn Arabi: The Doorway to an Intellectual TraditionĬommentary on a Hadith by Sadr al-Din Qunawi Jami on Divine Love and the Image of Wine The Central Point – Qunawi’s Role in the School of Ibn Arabi
The Last Will and Testament of Sadr al-Din Qunawi – Translation Ibn Arabi’s own Summary of the Fusus (PDF) The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi: Islamic Thought in Confucian Terms (2009, with Sachiko Murata and Tu Weiming) To pick out a few books from the 22 listed on his website, the following have been hugely important contributions to modern studies of Ibn 'Arabi: Imaginal Worlds: Ibn al-‛Arabī and the Problem of Religious Diversity (1994, translated into German, Indonesian, Persian, Spanish, Turkish) The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-‛Arabī’s Metaphysics of Imagination (1989, translated into Persian, Turkish, and partially into Indonesian) The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn al-‛Arabī’s Cosmology (1998) Ibn ‛Arabi: Heir to the Prophets (2005, translated into Albanian, Arabic, German, Persian, Turkish). He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for his academic contributions in 2014.
Chittick is currently Distinguished Professor in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Stony Brook University. He taught comparative religion at Tehran’s Aryamehr Technical University and left Iran before the revolution.
He is best known for his work on Rumi and Ibn Arabi, and he has written extensively on the school of Ibn Arabi, Islamic philosophy and Islamic cosmology.īorn in Milford, Connecticut, Chittick finished his BA at the College of Wooster in Ohio, and then went on to complete a PhD in Persian literature at University of Tehran under the supervision of Seyyed Hossein Nasr in 1974. Chittick is a philosoper, writer, translator and interpreter of classical Islamic philosophical and mystical texts.
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