Sachiko Murata and William Chittick on what Muslim scholars in China made of Sufism, and what Confucian language did to it.
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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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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.
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A mystical path of love, remembrance, poetry and inner refinement.
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