22 min
Talk · Sachiko Murata
Sufism in Chinese Islam
Sachiko Murata and William Chittick on what Muslim scholars in China made of Sufism, and what Confucian language did to it.
About the teacher
William C. Chittick
American translator and interpreter of classical Islamic philosophy and mysticism (born 1943), Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University. His translations and studies of Ibn Arabi and Rumi are how much of the English-speaking world reads them, and he has written at length on Islamic cosmology and the school that grew up around Ibn Arabi.
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Talks & videos
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Short introductions and longer conversations, to hear this teacher in their own words.
8 min
Interview
Knowledge or Love?
Eight minutes on a life spent with these texts, and the shortest way in.
90 min
Talk
The Path of Muhammadan Love
A recent session on love as the structure of the cosmos in Ibn Arabi's reading.
91 min
Talk
Translating Ibn Arabi
A keynote at Columbia on what happens to a text like the Futuhat when it is carried into English.
98 min
Talk
Love and Knowledge
An hour and a half on whether the Islamic path runs through knowing or through loving, and why that is a false choice.
Path
The wider context.
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Love & remembrance
Sufism
A mystical path of love, remembrance, poetry and inner refinement.
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