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Talk · Rumi Center for Spirituality and the Arts · 2025Love and Knowledge
98 min
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An hour and a half on whether the Islamic path runs through knowing or through loving, and why that is a false choice.

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Meet William C. Chittick.

Ibn Arabi · Islamic philosophy

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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