William Chittick

Né à Milford (Connecticut), Chittick a d'abord étudié au College de Wooster dans l'Ohio, puis a obtenu un doctorat en littérature persane à l'Université de Téhéran, sous la direction de Seyyed Hossein Nasr en 1974. Il a enseigné la religion comparée à l'Université technique Aryamehr de Téhéran et a quitté l'Iran avant la révolution de 1979.

Chittick est actuellement professeur d'études asiatiques et américano-asiatiques à l'Université Stony Brook[1] - [2] - [3] - [4] - [5]. En 2014, il a reçu la bourse Guggenheim pour ses contributions universitaires.

• The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, Albany, State University of New York Press, 1983.
• The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-'Arabi's Metaphysics of Imagination , Albany, State University of New York Press, 1989.
• Imaginal Worlds: Ibn al-'Arabi and the Problem of Religious Diversity, Albany, State University of New York Press, 1994.
• Avec Sachiko Murata, The Vision of Islam , New York, Paragon House, 1994.
• (tr) Varolmann Boyutlari. Tasavvuf ve Bahdetü'l-Vücud Üstüne Yazılar (« The Dimensions of Existence »), A collection of seventeen essays edited and translated by Turan Koç, Istanbul, Insan Yayınları, 1997.
• The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn al-'Arabi's Cosmology , Albany, State University of New York Press, 1998.
• Sufism: A Short Introduction, Oxford, Oneworld, 2000.
• The Heart of Islamic Philosophy:The Quest for Self-Knowledge in the Teachings of Afdal al-Din Kashani Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001.
• Ibn 'Arabi: Heir to the Prophets, Oxford, Oneworld, 2005.
• The Sufi Doctrine of Rumi, Bloomington, World Wisdom, 2005 (Illustrated Editions) / Trad. française: La Doctrine soufie de Rûmî, Wattrelos, Tasnîm, 2019.
• Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul: The Pertinence of Islamic Cosmology in the Modern World , Oxford, Oneworld, 2007.
• Avec Sachiko Murata et Tu Weiming, The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi: Islamic Thought in Confucian Terms, With a New Translation of Jāmī's Lawā'iḥ from the Persian by William C. Chittick, Cambridge (MA), Harvard University Asia Centre, 2009.
• In Search of the Lost Heart: Explorations in Islamic Thought. An anthology of Chittick's writings (from 1975 to 2012) edité par Mohammed Rustom, Atif Khalil, et Kazuyo Murata , Albany, State University of New York Press, 2012.
• Divine Love: Islamic Literature and the Path to God, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2013.