William Chittick
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William C. Chittick is a renowned scholar of Sufi thought and literature and Islamic philosophy.
Born in Connecticut, he completed a Ph.D. in Persian literature at Tehran University in 1974. He then taught comparative religion in the humanities department at Tehran's Aryamehr Technical University and left Iran just before the revolution in 1979.
He has also served as assistant editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica, and is currently professor of religious studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Professor Chittick is author and translator of twenty books and over one hundred articles on Islamic thought, Sufism, and Shi'ism.
He has had collaborations with Seyyed Hossein Nasr, and Allameh Tabatabaei on several important projects.
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| Sufi philosophy : | Ihsan • Lataif • Cosmology • Tajalli • Noor • Maqaam • Haal • Manzil • Yaqeen • Fanaa • Baqaa • Index of Sufi Concepts |
| Practices: | Dhikr • Muraqaba • Sama • Qawwali • Sufi whirling • Hadhra |
| Sufi orders : | Chishti • Jerrahi • Mevlevi • Naqshbandi • Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi • Qadri • Rifa'i • Suhrawardiyya • Shadhili • Index of Sufi Orders |
| Famous medieval Sufis : | Oveys Gharani • Hassan Basri • Rabia • Bayazid • Junayd • Ghazali • Jilani • Ibn Arabi • Rumi • Saadi • Attar • Sohrevardi • Data Gunj • Gharib Nawaz • Khusro • Baba Farid • Kabir • Alf Sani • Shah Waliullah • Bhittai |
| Famous modern Sufis : | Salaheddin Ali Nader Shah Angha • Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha • Idries Shah • Omar Ali Shah • Muhammad al-Maliki • Hisham Kabbani • Kabir Helminski • Inayat Khan • Shamsuddin Azeemi • Keller • Martin Lings |
| Miscellaneous: | Sufi texts • History • Sufi poetry • Sufi art • Sufi Music • Sufi Fiction • Sufi studies • Sufi academics • Shrines |
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