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William Chittick, the Glossary

William Clark Chittick (born June 29, 1943) is an American philosopher, writer, translator, and interpreter of classical Islamic philosophical and mystical texts.^[1]

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Aḥmad Samʿānī

Abu ʾl-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Samʿānī (1094 – 11 June 1140), known in Persian as Aḥmad Samʿānī, was an Arab scholar, preacher and poet. William Chittick and Aḥmad Samʿānī are Sufi writers.

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Afdal al-Din Kashani

Afḑal al-Dīn Maraqī Kāshānī (افضل‌الدین مَرَقی کاشانی), also known as Baba Afzal (بابا افضل‌), was a Persian poet and philosopher.

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Albanian language

Albanian (endonym: shqip, gjuha shqipe, or arbërisht) is an Indo-European language and the only surviving representative of the Albanoid branch, which belongs to the Paleo-Balkan group.

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Ali

Ali ibn Abi Talib (translit) was the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and was the fourth Rashidun caliph who ruled from 656 to 661, as well as the first Shia imam. William Chittick and Ali are Islamic philosophers.

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Ali al-Sajjad

Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Sajjad (translit, 712), also known as Zayn al-Abidin (lit) was the great-grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and the fourth imam in Shia Islam, succeeding his father, Husayn ibn Ali, his uncle, Hasan ibn Ali, and his grandfather, Ali ibn Abi Talib.

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American University of Beirut

The American University of Beirut (AUB; al-Jāmiʿa l-Amērkiyya fī Bayrūt) is a private, non-sectarian, and independent university chartered in New York with its campus in Beirut, Lebanon.

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Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.

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Badiozzaman Forouzanfar

Badiozzaman Forouzanfar or Badi'ozzamān Forūzānfar (بدیع‌الزمان فروزانفر, also as "Badiʿ al-Zamān Furūzānfar"; 12 July 1904 in Boshrooyeh, Ferdows County – 6 May 1970 in Tehran) (born Ziyaa' Boshrooye-i ضياء بشرويه‌ای) was a scholar of Persian literature, Iranian linguistics and culture, and an expert on Rumi (Molana Jalaleddin Balkhi) and his works.

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Bosnian language

Bosnian (bosanski / босански), sometimes referred to as Bosniak language, is the standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian pluricentric language mainly used by ethnic Bosniaks.

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Brigham Young University Press

Brigham Young University Press (BYU Press) was the university press of Brigham Young University (BYU).

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College of Wooster

The College of Wooster is a private liberal arts college in Wooster, Ohio.

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Contemporary philosophy

Contemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the early 20th century with the increasing professionalization of the discipline and the rise of analytic and continental philosophy.

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Cosmology in the Muslim world

Islamic cosmology is the cosmology of Islamic societies.

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Encyclopædia Iranica

Encyclopædia Iranica is a project whose goal is to create a comprehensive and authoritative English-language encyclopedia about the history, culture, and civilization of Iranian peoples from prehistory to modern times.

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Fakhr al-Din Iraqi

Fakhr al-Din Iraqi (also spelled Araqi; فخرالدین عراقی; 1213/14 – 1289) was a Persian Sufi poet of the 13th-century.

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German language

German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.

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Henry Corbin

Henry Corbin (14 April 1903 – 7 October 1978) was a French philosopher, theologian, and Iranologist, professor of Islamic studies at the École pratique des hautes études. William Chittick and Henry Corbin are ibn Arabi scholars and Traditionalist School.

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Ibn Arabi

Ibn ʿArabī (ابن عربي,; full name: أبو عبد الله محـمـد بن عربي الطائي الحاتمي,; 1165–1240) was an Andalusi Arab scholar, mystic, poet, and philosopher, extremely influential within Islamic thought. William Chittick and Ibn Arabi are Islamic philosophers.

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Indonesian language

Indonesian is the official and national language of Indonesia.

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Insha-Allah Rahmati

Insha-Allah Rahmati (انشاءالله رحمتی; born 22 December 1966) is an Iranian philosopher, thinker, translator and a full professor of philosophy at Islamic Azad University in Tehran. William Chittick and Insha-Allah Rahmati are Islamic philosophers.

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Iranian Research Institute of Philosophy

The Iranian Research Institute of Philosophy (IRIP; Persian: مؤسسه پژوهشی حکمت و فلسفه ایران) is a public research institute in Tehran, Iran.

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Iranian Revolution

The Iranian Revolution (انقلاب ایران), also known as the 1979 Revolution and the Islamic Revolution (label), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979. The revolution led to the replacement of the Imperial State of Iran by the present-day Islamic Republic of Iran, as the monarchical government of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was superseded by the theocratic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a religious cleric who had headed one of the rebel factions.

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Iranian studies

Iranian studies (ايران‌شناسی), also referred to as Iranology and Iranistics, is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the research and study of the civilization, history, literature, art and culture of Iranian peoples.

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Islamic philosophy

Islamic philosophy is philosophy that emerges from the Islamic tradition.

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Islamic studies

Islamic studies refers to the academic study of Islam, which is analogous to related fields such as Jewish studies and Quranic studies.

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Italian language

Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.

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Jami

Nūr ad-Dīn 'Abd ar-Rahmān Jāmī (نورالدین عبدالرحمن جامی; 7 November 1414 – 9 November 1492), also known as Mawlanā Nūr al-Dīn 'Abd al-Rahmān or Abd-Al-Rahmān Nur-Al-Din Muhammad Dashti, or simply as Jami or Djāmī and in Turkey as Molla Cami, was a Sunni poet who is known for his achievements as a prolific scholar and writer of mystical Sufi literature.

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Javad Nurbakhsh

Javad Nurbakhsh (جواد نوربخش; 10 December 1926 – 10 October 2008) was the Master (pir) of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order from 1953 until his death. William Chittick and Javad Nurbakhsh are university of Tehran alumni.

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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation is a private foundation formed in 1925 by Olga and Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died on April 26, 1922.

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Mehdi Aminrazavi

Mehdi Aminrazavi (born September 22, 1957) is an Iranian scholar of philosophy and mysticism.

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Mehdi Mohaghegh

Mehdi Mohaghegh, sometimes transliterated Mahdi Muhaqqiq, (مهدی محقق, born 1930, Mashad, Iran) is an Iranian scholar specializing in Persian literature, Islamic studies and philosophy. William Chittick and Mehdi Mohaghegh are Faculty of Letters and Humanities of the University of Tehran alumni.

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Michel Chodkiewicz

Michel Chodkiewicz (13 May 1929 – 31 March 2020) was a French scholar of Sufism, particularly the works of Ibn 'Arabi. William Chittick and Michel Chodkiewicz are ibn Arabi scholars and Traditionalist School.

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Milford, Connecticut

Milford is a coastal city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, between New Haven and Bridgeport.

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Minzu University of China

The Minzu University of China (MUC) is a national public university in Beijing, China.

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Mohammed Rustom

Mohammed Rustom (born 1980) is Full Professor of Islamic thought and global philosophy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada and Director of the Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam.

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Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i

Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i (16 March 1903 – 15 November 1981) was an Iranian scholar, theorist, philosopher and one of the most prominent thinkers of modern Shia Islam.

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Mulla Sadra

Ṣadr ad-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī, more commonly known as Mullā Ṣadrā (ملا صدرا; صدر المتألهین; c. 1571/2 – c. 1635/40 CE / 980 – 1050 AH), was a Persian Twelver Shi'i Islamic mystic, philosopher, theologian, and ‘Ālim who led the Iranian cultural renaissance in the 17th century. William Chittick and Mulla Sadra are Islamic philosophers.

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National Endowment for the Humanities

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by the, dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.

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Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church, believed in a literal Kingdom of God on earth to be brought about by human effort, motivating his establishment of numerous groups, some that are not strictly religious in their purposes.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Paulist Fathers

The Paulist Fathers, officially named the Missionary Society of Saint Paul the Apostle (Societas Sacerdotum Missionariorum a Sancto Paulo Apostolo), abbreviated CSP, is a Catholic society of apostolic life of Pontifical Right for men founded in New York City in 1858 by Isaac Hecker in collaboration with George Deshon, Augustine Hewit, and Francis A.

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Peking University

Peking University (abbreviated PKU or Beida) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China.

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Persian language

Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.

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Persian literature

Persian literature comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures.

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Peter Lamborn Wilson

Peter Lamborn Wilson (October 20, 1945 – May 22, 2022) was an American anarchist author and poet, primarily known for his concept of Temporary Autonomous Zones, short-lived spaces which elude formal structures of control.

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Rumi

Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (جلال‌الدین محمّد رومی), or simply Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century poet, Hanafi faqih (jurist), Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian (mutakallim), and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran. William Chittick and Rumi are Islamic philosophers.

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Russian language

Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia.

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Sachiko Murata

Sachiko Murata (村田幸子, born 1943) is Japanese scholar of comparative philosophy and mysticism and a professor of religion and Asian studies at Stony Brook University. William Chittick and Sachiko Murata are university of Tehran alumni.

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Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi

Ṣadr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūnus Qūnawī, (صدر الدین قونوی; 1207–1274), was a PersianF. William Chittick and Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi are Islamic philosophers and Sufi writers.

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Sayyed Jalal-ed-Din Ashtiani

Sayyed Jalal-ed-Din Ashtiani (سید جلال‌الدین آشتیانی) (1925–2005) was an Iranian professor of philosophy and Islamic mysticism. William Chittick and Sayyed Jalal-ed-Din Ashtiani are Islamic philosophers.

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The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate grande école and grand établissement in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Chittick

Also known as Chittick, William, William C. Chittick.

, Sayyed Jalal-ed-Din Ashtiani, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Shams Tabrizi, Sharif University of Technology, Spanish language, Stony Brook University, Sufi studies, Sufism, SUNY Press, Tehran, Toshihiko Izutsu, Tu Weiming, Turkish language, United States, University of Tehran, Urdu, Wooster, Ohio, World Wisdom, Yale University Press.

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See also

Academic staff of Sharif University of Technology

American Arabists

American Iranologists

Ibn Arabi scholars

Rumi scholars

Sufi writers

References