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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>William C. Chittick</b> (* <a href="1943" title="1943">1943</a> in <a href="Milford_(Connecticut)" title="Milford (Connecticut)">Milford</a>, <a href="Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a>, <a href="Vereinigte_Staaten" title="Vereinigte Staaten">USA</a>) ist ein amerikanischer Professor für <a href="Religionswissenschaft" title="Religionswissenschaft">Religionswissenschaft</a> an der <a href="Stony_Brook_University" title="Stony Brook University">Stony Brook University</a>, <a href="State_University_of_New_York" title="State University of New York">State University of New York</a>, Autor und Übersetzer verschiedener Werke über den <a href="Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>, <a href="Sufismus" title="Sufismus">Sufismus</a>, <a href="Schiiten" class="mw-redirect" title="Schiiten">Schiismus</a> und <a href="Persische_Literatur" title="Persische Literatur">persische Literatur</a>. Seinen Arbeitsschwerpunkt bilden Texte aus <a href="Islamische_Philosophie" title="Islamische Philosophie">Philosophie</a> und <a href="Sufismus" title="Sufismus">Mystik</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leben_und_Werk">Leben und Werk</h2></div>
<p>Chittick wuchs in <a href="Milford_(Connecticut)" title="Milford (Connecticut)">Milford (Connecticut)</a> auf und studierte <a href="Geschichte" title="Geschichte">Geschichte</a> am <a href="College_of_Wooster" title="College of Wooster">College of Wooster</a> in <a href="Wooster_(Ohio)" title="Wooster (Ohio)">Wooster</a> (<a href="Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a>). 1974 promovierte er im <a href="Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> an der <a href="Universit%C3%A4t_Teheran" title="Universität Teheran">Universität von Teheran</a> über persische Literatur bei <a href="Seyyed_Hossein_Nasr" class="mw-redirect" title="Seyyed Hossein Nasr">Seyyed Hossein Nasr</a>. Anschließend lehrte er Vergleichende Religionswissenschaften an der <a href="Scharif-Universit%C3%A4t_f%C3%BCr_Technologie" title="Scharif-Universität für Technologie">Technischen Aryamehr-Universität</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in <a href="Teheran" title="Teheran">Teheran</a>. Den Iran verließ er vor der <a href="Islamische_Revolution" title="Islamische Revolution">Revolution</a>. Seit 1983 ist er Professor für <a href="Religionswissenschaften" class="mw-redirect" title="Religionswissenschaften">Religionswissenschaften</a> am Department for Asian and Asian American Studies an der <a href="Stony_Brook_University" title="Stony Brook University">Stony Brook University</a> im <a href="Vereinigte_Staaten" title="Vereinigte Staaten">US</a>-Bundesstaat <a href="New_York_(Bundesstaat)" title="New York (Bundesstaat)">New York</a>.
</p><p>Er ist Verfasser zahlreicher Bücher und Artikel. Viele Originaltexte übersetzte er direkt aus dem <a href="Persische_Sprache" title="Persische Sprache">Persischen</a> und <a href="Arabische_Sprache" title="Arabische Sprache">Arabischen</a> ins Englische. Er lieferte wegweisende Arbeiten über die islamischen Mystiker <a href="Dschalal_ad-Din_ar-Rumi" class="mw-redirect" title="Dschalal ad-Din ar-Rumi">Rumi</a> und <a href="Ibn_Arabi" class="mw-redirect" title="Ibn Arabi">Ibn ʿArabī</a> und ist auch der erste englische Übersetzer der wichtigen <a href="Zw%C3%B6lfer-Schia" title="Zwölfer-Schia">schiitischen</a> Schrift <i><a href="As-Sahifa_us-Sajjadiyya" title="As-Sahifa us-Sajjadiyya">As-Sahifa us-Sajjadiyya</a></i>.
</p><p>Seit den frühen 1980er Jahren ist Chittick Mitarbeiter an der <i><a href="Encyclopaedia_Iranica" class="mw-redirect" title="Encyclopaedia Iranica">Encyclopaedia Iranica</a></i>.
</p><p>2011 wurde er in die Liste der 500 einflussreichsten Muslime des <a href="Prince_Al-Waleed_Bin_Talaal_Center_for_Muslim-Christian_Understanding" class="mw-redirect" title="Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talaal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding">Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talaal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> der <a href="Georgetown_University" title="Georgetown University">Georgetown University</a> und des <a href="K%C3%B6nigliches_Aal_al-Bayt_Institut_f%C3%BCr_islamisches_Denken#Angeschlossene_Organisationen_und_Projekte" class="mw-redirect" title="Königliches Aal al-Bayt Institut für islamisches Denken">Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre</a> von <a href="Jordanien" title="Jordanien">Jordanien</a> aufgenommen.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Chittick ist mit Sachiko Murata verheiratet.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literatur">Literatur</h2></div>
<p><b>Monographien und Aufsätze</b>
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<ul><li><i>The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi</i> (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983). ISBN 978-0-87395-724-3</li>
<li><i>The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-'Arabi's Metaphysics of Imagination</i> (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989). ISBN 978-0-88706-884-3</li>
<li><i>Imaginal Worlds: Ibn al-'Arabi and the Problem of Religious Diversity</i> (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994). ISBN 978-0-7914-2250-2</li>
<li>mit Sachiko Murata, <i>The Vision of Islam</i> (New York: Paragon, 1994). ISBN 978-1-55778-516-9</li>
<li><i>The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn al-'Arabi's Cosmology</i> (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998). ISBN 978-0-7914-3404-8</li>
<li><i>Sufism: A Short Introduction</i> (<a href="Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>: Oneworld, 2000). ISBN 978-1-85168-211-9</li>
<li><i>The Heart of Islamic Philosophy:The Quest for Self-Knowledge in the Teachings of Afdal al-Din Kashani</i> (Oxford: <a href="Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>, 2001). ISBN 978-0-19-513913-6</li>
<li><i>Ibn 'Arabi: Heir to the Prophets</i> (Oxford: Oneworld, 2005). ISBN 978-1-85168-387-1</li>
<li><i>The Sufi Doctrine of Rumi</i> (Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2005). ISBN 978-0-941532-88-4</li>
<li><i>Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul: The Pertinence of Islamic Cosmology in the Modern World</i> (Oxford: Oneworld, 2007). ISBN 978-1-85168-495-3</li>
<li>mit Sachiko Murata und <a href="Tu_Weiming" class="mw-redirect" title="Tu Weiming">Tu Weiming</a>, <i>The Sage Learning of <a href="Liu_Zhi_(Gelehrter)" title="Liu Zhi (Gelehrter)">Liu Zhi</a>: Islamic Thought in Confucian Terms</i> (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Centre, 2009). ISBN 978-0-674-03325-2</li>
<li><i>In Search of the Lost Heart: Explorations in Islamic Thought.</i> Edited by Mohammed Rustom, Atif Khalil, and Kazuyo Murata (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012). ISBN 978-1-4384-3935-8</li>
<li><i>Divine Love: Islamic Literature and the Path to God</i> (New Haven: <a href="Yale_University_Press" title="Yale University Press">Yale University Press</a>, 2013).</li></ul>
<p><b>als Herausgeber</b>
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<ul><li><i>The Inner Journey: Views from the Islamic Tradition.</i> Edited and Introduced (Sandpoint, ID: White Thread Press, 2007). ISBN 978-1-59675-017-3</li>
<li><i>The Essential <a href="Seyyed_Hossein_Nasr" class="mw-redirect" title="Seyyed Hossein Nasr">Seyyed Hossein Nasr</a>.</i> Edited and Introduced (Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2007). ISBN 978-1-933316-38-3</li></ul>
<p><b>wichtige Übersetzungen</b>
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<ul><li><i>A Shi'ite Anthology</i> (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981). ISBN 978-0-87395-510-2</li>
<li>Fakhr al-Din 'Iraqi, <i>Divine Flashes.</i> Translated with P. L. Wilson (New York: Paulist Press, 1982). ISBN 978-0-8091-2372-8</li>
<li><a href="%CA%BFAl%C4%AB_ibn_Husain_Zain_al-%CA%BF%C4%80bid%C4%ABn" title="ʿAlī ibn Husain Zain al-ʿĀbidīn">Zayn al-'Abidin</a>, <i>The Psalms of Islam.</i> Translated and Introduced (London: Muhammadi Trust, 1988). ISBN 91-631-6505-8</li>
<li><i>Faith and Practice of Islam: Three Thirteenth Century Sufi Texts</i> (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992). ISBN 978-0-7914-1367-8</li>
<li><a href="Dschami_(Dichter)" title="Dschami (Dichter)">'Abd al-Rahman Jami</a>, <i>Gleams.</i> Übersetzt in Sachiko Murata, <i>Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light: Wang Tai-yu's Great Learning of the Pure and Real and <a href="Liu_Zhi_(Gelehrter)" title="Liu Zhi (Gelehrter)">Liu Chih</a>'s Displaying the Concealment of the Real Realm</i> (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000). ISBN 978-0-7914-4638-6</li>
<li><a href="Mulla_Sadra" class="mw-redirect" title="Mulla Sadra">Mulla Sadra</a>, <i>The Elixir of the Gnostics.</i> Translated, Edited, and Introduced (Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 2003). ISBN 978-0-934893-70-1</li>
<li><a href="Schams-e_Tabrizi" title="Schams-e Tabrizi">Shams al-Din Tabrizi</a>, <i>Me and Rumi: The Autobiography of Shams-i Tabrizi.</i> Annotated and Translated (Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 2004). ISBN 978-1-887752-52-7</li>
<li>Ibn 'Arabi, select translations from <i>The Meccan Revelations.</i> Übersetzt in Michel Chodkiewicz (ed.), <i>The Meccan Revelations</i> (New York: Pir Press, 2004). ISBN 978-1-879708-16-7</li>
<li>Khwaja Khurd, <i>Treatise on the Gnostic</i> and <i>The Light of Oneness.</i> Übersetzt in Chittick, <i>In Search of the Lost Heart.</i></li>
<li>Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi, <i>The Texts.</i> Übersetzt in Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Mehdi Aminrazavi (eds.), <i>An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia,</i> vol.4 (London: I.B. Tauris in association with <a href="The_Institute_of_Ismaili_Studies" class="mw-redirect" title="The Institute of Ismaili Studies">The Institute of Ismaili Studies</a>, 2012). ISBN 978-1-848857490</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/asian/faculty/WilliamChittick.shtml">stonybrook.edu: Biography</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/asian/Chittick%20Chronological%20List%208-13.pdf">Publications</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-c-chittick-phd">huffingtonpost.com: William C. Chittick, Ph.D.</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.coreis.it/documenti/2011-500.pdf">coreis.it</a> (500 Muslims: Chittick, Dr William)</li></ul>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://meti.byu.edu/mysticism_chittick.html">"Mysticism in Islam" - lecture delivered at the Center for International Studies, Brigham Young University, May 2003</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.seriousseekers.com/Audio%20and%20Video/Audio_pathstoheart/audio_chittick_cosmologydhikr.htm">Free recording the 2001 Paths to the Heart Conference – lecture and Q&A section</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.islamfrominside.com/Pages/Podcasts/Fall%20of%20Adam%20podcast.html">Audio lecture on the Myth of the Fall of Adam in Ahmad Sam'ani's <i>Refreshment of Spirits</i></a>.</li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">„Prinz al-Walid-Zentrum für muslimisch-christliche Verständigung“, nach dem saudi-arabischen Prinzen und Multimilliardär <a href="Al-Walid_ibn_Talal" title="Al-Walid ibn Talal">al-Walid ibn Talal</a>.</span>
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