Sachiko Murata

Sufism · Islam and Chinese thought

Japanese scholar of comparative philosophy and mysticism (born 1943), professor of religion and Asian studies at Stony Brook University and a Guggenheim Fellow. She works where Islamic and Chinese thought meet: The Tao of Islam reads Islamic cosmology through yin and yang, and Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light follows Muslim scholars in seventeenth and eighteenth century China who wrote their faith in Confucian terms.