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The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-Arabi’s Metaphysics of Imagination

William C. Chittick

William Chittick takes-a-major step toward exposing the breadth and depth of Ibn al-‘Arabi’s vision. The book offers his view of spiritual perfection and explains his theology, ontology, epistemology, hermeneutics, and…

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Faith and Practice of Islam: Three Thirteenth-Century Sufi Texts

William C. Chittick

Translations and analyses of three Persian Sufi texts, offering a perspective on Islam that is rarely met in modern works.

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Imaginal Worlds: Ibn al-‘Arabi and the Problem of Religious Diversity

William C. Chittick

In this book Chittick explains Ibn al-Arabi’s concept of human perfection, his World of Imagination, and his teachings on why God’s wisdom demands diversity of religious expression. He then suggests…

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The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn al-‘Arabi’s Cosmology

William C. Chittick

Explicates the cosmology of Ibn al-‘Arabi, the greatest mystical thinker of Islamic civilization.

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The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi

William C. Chittick

This is the most accessible work in English on the greatest mystical poet of Islam.

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Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul: The Pertinence of Islamic Cosmology in the Modern World

William C. Chittick

In this profound book, William Chittick examines the demise of the Sufi academic tradition, questioning how Islamic thought can be reclaimed from ideology and commercialism.

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Sufism: A Beginner’s Guide

William C. Chittick

William C. Chittick, the leading scholar in the field, offers a compelling insight into the origins and key themes of Islamic mysticism.

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Ibn ‘Arabi: Heir to the Prophets

William C. Chittick

Renowned expert William Chittick covers the life and works of this legendary Sufi writer.

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Divine Love: Islamic Literature and the Path to God

William C. Chittick

Provides a look at historic Persian literature and the topic of love, which is at the heart of Islamic spiritual thought. This title contains extensive Arabic and Persian material, from…

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Faith and Practice of Islam: Three Thirteenth-Century Sufi Texts

William C. Chittick

Three treatises explain clearly and succinctly the teachings of Ibn al’ Arabi, and the Sufi perspective on Islamic belief and practice. The author is not unambiguously identified, but he certainly…

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The Repose of the Spirits: A Sufi Commentary on the Divine Names

Ahmad Sam'ani

Major new translation of a unique and important Persian treatise on divine names in the Islamic tradition.

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The Mosque: The Heart of Submission

Rusmir Mahmutcehajic

Argues that the mosque is not an analogue of the Christian church. Rather, every Muslim is his or her own priest, and most religious obligations are performed in the home…

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Me and Rumi: The Autobiography of Shams-I Tabrizi

Shams-i Tabrizi,William C. Chittick

Shams-i Tabrizi turned Rumi into a devotee of music, dance and poetry. Three years after Sham’s appearance he vanished. It was this longing for the lost Shams that transformed Rumi…

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The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi: Islamic Thought in Confucian Terms

Sachiko Murata,William C. Chittick,Wei-ming Tu

Liu Zhi (ca. 1670-1724) was one of the most important scholars of Islam in traditional China. His Tianfang xingli (Nature and Principle in Islam) focuses on the roots or principles…

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The Heart of Islamic Philosophy: The Quest for Self-Knowledge in the Teachings of Afdal al-Din Kashani

William C. Chittick (Professor of Comparative Studies, Professor of Comparative Studies, State University of New York, Stony Brook)

This book introduces the work of a medieval Islamic philosopher who is little known outside the Persian world. Afdal al-Din Kashani was a contemporary of a number of Muslim thinkers…

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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. With a New Translation of Jami’s Lawa'ih from the Persian by William C. Chittick

Sachiko Murata

The first study in English of Islamic thought in China, this book shows that this tradition was informed by both Sufism and Neo-Confucianism; translations of two classic works are included.

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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. With a New Translation of Jami’s Lawa'ih from the Persian by William C. Chittick

Sachiko Murata

The first study in English of Islamic thought in China, this book shows that this tradition was informed by both Sufism and Neo-Confucianism; translations of two classic works are included.

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Merton & Sufism: The Untold Story: A Complete Compendium

This collection is comprised of essays by scholars, Merton’s own Sufi poems, books reviews of Sufi texts, edited transcriptions of his lectures on Sufism given to the Trappist novices at…

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The Name and the Named

Shaykh Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi al-Halveti

This title explains the divine attributes by which God manifests Himself in the world, and by which He completes the spiritual life of man. The author describes how, in order…

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