“The Eternity of the Soul in Baba Afdal”

Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2003 @ 7:30 p.m.
Willard Smith Library

William C. Chittick
Professor of Religious Studies
State University of New York, Stony Brook

William C. Chittick is Professor of Religious Studies at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and specializes in Islamic philosophy, particularly Sufism. He is the author or translator of twenty-some books, among them: The Heart of Islamic Philosophy: The Quest for Self-Knowledge in the Teachings of Afdal al-Dîn Kâshânî (2001), Sufism (2000), The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn al-‘Arabî’s Cosmology (1998), Imaginal Worlds: Ibn al-‘Arabî and the Problem of Religious Diversity (1994), Faith and Practice of Islam: Three Thirteenth Century SufiTtexts (1992), The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-‘Arabî’s Metaphysics of Imagination (1989), A Shi’ite Anthology (1986), and The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi (1983).