Appointments

• SUNY Distinguished Professor, 2016-
• Professor of Religious Studies, Department of Asian and Asian-American Studies, Stony Brook University, 2003-16; and Department of Comparative Studies, 1996-2003
• Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Department of Comparative Studies, SUNY Stony Brook, full-time 1992-96; half-time 1991-92
• Assistant Professor of Religious Studies (half-time), SUNY Stony Brook, 1983-1991
• Assistant Editor, Encyclopaedia Iranica, Columbia University, 1981-1984
• Assistant Professor, Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy, Tehran, 1978-79            
• Assistant Professor, Center for the Humanities, Aryamehr Technical University, Tehran, 1974-1978
• Instructor, Center for the Humanities, Aryamehr Technical University, Tehran, 1973-1974
• Research Assistant, Center for the Study of Islamic Science, Tehran, 1971-72

Education

• Associate at the Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy, Tehran, 1976-78
• Ph.D. in the Persian language and its literature, Tehran University, 1974 
• B.A. in history, College of Wooster, 1966

Professional Activities

• Honorary Professor, The School of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Minzu University of China, 2012-2015 
• Ken’an Rifai Distinguished Professor of Islamic Studies, The Institute of Advanced Humanistic Studies, Peking University (Spring 2012)
• Directeur d’études, L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Social, Paris, June 2004
• Visiting Professor of Arabic Literature, Harvard University, Spring 1996
• Board of Editors, SUNY Press, 1989-92

Fellowships

• Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, 2014-15
• Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2010-11
• Senior Fellowship, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard, 1995-96
• Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1993-94
• Fulbright to India:  Grant from the Indo-U.S. Subcommission on Education and Culture, May 1988-January 1989
• Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1986-87

Prizes

• World Prize for the Book of the Year, The Islamic Republic of Iran, 2015
• The Second Farabi International Award on the Humanities and Islamic Studies, Ministry of Science, Tehran, 27 December 2008
• Celebration of career by Foundation for Cultural Works and Triumphs, Tehran, 14 June 2008
• World Prize for the Book of the Year, The Islamic Republic of Iran, 2005
• Mevlāna Arastirmalari Özel Ödülü, Kombassan Foundation (Konya, Turkey), 2000

Publications

• Author, editor, and translator of thirty books and monographs and 175 articles on Islamic thought, Sufism, and Shi’ism

Books and Monographs

Compositions

Divine Love: Islamic Literature and the Path to God.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013, xxvi + 490 pp.  (selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2013).

• Persian translation by Sayyid Amīr Husayn Asgharī. ‘Ishq-i ilāhī: Sayr bi-sūyi khudā dar mutūn-i islāmī.  Tehran: Intishārāt-i ‘Ilmī wa Farhangī, 1394/2015, 540 pp.
• Persian translation by Enshā’allāh Rahmatī and Husayn Kiyānī. ‘Ishq-i ilāhī: Tarīq ila’llāh dar mutūn-i islāmī.  Tehran: Nashr-i Sūfiyā, 1395/2017, 720 pp.
• Turkish translation by Ömer Saruhanlıoğlu and Kadir Filiz. İlahi Așk: Erken Dönem Farsça Tasavvuf Metinlerinde Allah ve İnsan.  Istanbul: Nefes Yayınları, 2018.

In Search of the Lost Heart: Explorations in Islamic Thought. Edited  by Muhammad Rustom, Atef Khalil, and Kazuyo Murata. Albany: SUNY Press, 2012, 397 + 14 pp.          

• Albanian translation by Sokrat Amataj. Kërkime për Zemrën e Humbur: Explorime në Mendimin Islamik. Tirane: ENEAS, 2012, 447 pp.   
• 15 of 26 chapters translated into Persian by Sayyid Amīr Husayn Asgharī. Dar justujū-ye qalb-i gumshuda.  Tehran:  Nasrh-i Falāt, 2017, 262 pp.
• Turkish translation by Ömer Saruhanlıoğlu. Âşiğın aynası:  Kayıp kalbin peşinde.  Istanbul: Okuyan Us, 2018, 339 pp.

The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi: Islamic Thought in Confucian Terms, by Sachiko Murata, William C. Chittick, and Tu Weiming.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009, xxvi + 678 pp.

Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul: The Pertinence of Islamic Cosmology in the Modern World. Oxford: Oneworld, 2007, xi + 135 pp.  Also Lahore:  Suhail Academy, 2011.

• Persian translation by Sayyid Amīr Husayn Asgharī. ‘Ilm-i jahān, ‘ilm-i jān.  Tehran: Intishārāt-i Ittilā‛āt, 1388/2009, 166 pp.
• Indonesian translation by Arif Mulyadi. Kosmologi Islam dan dunia modern.  Jakarta: Mizan, 2010, 216 pp.
• Turkish translation by Ömer Çolakoğlu. Kosmos’taki tek hakikat.  Istanbul: Sufi Kitap, 2010, 186 pp.  Also as Kozmos’un Hakikati: İlm-i Kainat, İlm-i Nefs: İslam Kozmolojisi.  Istanbul: İnsan Yayınları, 2017.
• Albanian translation by Edin Q. Lohja. Shkencë e kozmosit, shkencë e shpirtit.  Tirana:  Zemra e Traditës, 2011, 173 pp.

Ibn ‛Arabi:  Heir to the Prophets.  Oxford: Oneworld, 2005, vii + 152 pp.

• German translation by Peter Finckh. Ibn ‘Arabi: Erbe der Propheten.  Herrliberg, Zürich: Edition Shershir, 2012, 173 pp.
• Albanian translation by Edin Q. Lohja. Ibn ‛Arabīu Trashëgues i Profetëve.  Tirane: Zemra e Traditës, 2012, 175 pp.
• Turkish translation by Kadir Filiz. İbn Arabi: Giriş Kitabı. Istanbul: Nefes Yayınları, 2014. 
• Persian translation by Hūshmand Dihqān. Ibn ‘Arabī: Wārith-i Anbiyā’.  Tehran:  Payām-i Imrūz, 2014, 216 pp.
• Persian translation by Muhammad Sūrī and Ismā‛īl ‛Alīkhānī. Ibn ‘Arabī: Mīrāth-dār-i Payāmbarān.  Tehran:  ‘Ilmī wa Farhangī, 2014, 208 pp. 
• Arabic translation by Nasir Dumairieh. Muhyi’l-Dīn ibn ‛Arabī: Wārith al-Anbiyā’.  Damascus:  Dār Nīnawā, 2015, 164 pp.

Me & Rumi: The Autobiography of Shams-i Tabrizi.  Louisville: Fons Vitae, 2004, xxv + 409 pp.   Also Lahore:  Suhail Academy, 2005; Srinagar: Gulshan Books, 2015.

• Persian translation, with original English text, by Shihāb al-Dīn ‛Abbāsī. Man wa Mawlānā.  Tehran: Intishārāt-i Murwārīd, 1386/2007, 450 + 250 pp.
• Arabic translation by Muhammad Yāsir Haskī. Ana wa’l-Rūmī: al-Sīrat al-dhātiyya bi-qalam Shams al-Dīn al-Tabrīzī.  Beirut: Dār al-Khayāl, 2018.

The Heart of Islamic Philosophy:  The Quest for Self-Knowledge in the Teachings of Afdal al-Dīn Kāshānī.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2001, xiii + 360 pp.

• Persian translation by Shihāb al-Dīn ʿAbbāsī. Qalb-i falsafa-yi islāmī:  Dar justujū-yi khwudshināsī dar taʿālīm-i Afḍal al-Dīn Kāshānī.  Tehran:  Intishārāt-i Murwārīd, 1391/2011, 560 pp. 

Sufism: A Short Introduction.  Oxford: Oneworld, 2000, 180 pp.  Also Lahore:  Suhail Academy, 2005.  Re-issued as Sufism: A Beginner’s Guide.  Oxford: Oneworld, 2008, 233 pp.

• Indonesian translation by Zaimul Am. Tasawuf di Mata Kaum Sufi: Bandung: Penerbit Mizan, 2002, 284 pp.
• Turkish translation by Turan Koç. Tasavvuf: Kisa Bir Giris. Istanbul: Iz Yayincilik, 2003, 317 pp.
• Persian translation by Jalīl Parwīn. Dar āmadī bar tasawwuf wa ‛irfān-i islāmī. Tehran:  Pazhūhishkada-yi Khumaynī, 1382/2004, 270 pp.
• Persian translation by Muhammad-Ridā Rajabī. Dar āmadī bar tasawwuf. Qum: Markaz-i Mutāla‛āt wa Tahqīqāt-i Adyān wa Madhāhib, 1386/2007, 257 pp.
• Albanian translation by Sokrat Ahmataj. Në Kërkim Të Zemrës Së Humbur. Tirana:  Logoreci, 2007, xxii + 185 pp.  http://www.institutirumi.com/Botime/Libra/Ne%20kerkim%20te%20zemres%20se%20humbur%20I/index.html
• Italian translation by Francesco Alfonso Leccese. Il Sufismo.  Bologna:  Giulio Einaudi editore, 2009, x + 232 pp.
• Russian translation by M. G. Romanov and Yanis Eshots. Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura Publishers, 2012, 245 pp.
• Dutch translation by Marc Colpaert. Soefisme: Een knnismaking.  Synthese, 2019, 288 pp.

The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn al-‛Arabī’s Cosmology.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1998, 523 pp.; Lahore:  Suhail Academy, 2000.

Varolmann Boyutlari: Tasavvuf ve Vahdetül-Vücūd Üstüne Yazilar (Seventeen articles  translated into Turkish by Turan Koç).  Istanbul: İnsan Yayınları, 1997, 408 pp.; 2^nd edition, 2007, 416 pp.

The Vision of Islam (collaboration with Sachiko Murata).  New York: Paragon, 1994, 39 + 368 pp.  Also Lahore:  Suhail Academy, 1998. 

• Persian translation by ‛Abd al-Rahīm Guwāhī. Sīmā-yi islām.  Tehran:  Daftar-i Nashr-i Farhang-i Islāmī, 1378/1999, 634 pp. 
• Turkish translation by Turan Koç. Islām’in Vizyonu. Istanbul: İnsan Yayınları, 2000, 479 pp.
• Indonesian translation as The Vision of Islam. Yogyakarta: Suluh Press, 2005.
• Albanian translation by Sokrat Ahmataj. Visioni i Islamit. Tirana: albPAPER, n.d. (2008), 464 pp.
• Urdu translation by Muhammad Suhayl Umar. Islām apnī nigāh main. Islamabad and Lahore: The Institute of Islamic Studies and The Iqbal Academy, 2008, 633 pp.
• Russian translation by Natalia Prigarina and Tatiana Schetchikova. Moscow: Ladomir, 2014, 638 pp.
• Bosnian translation of chapter 6 by Rusmir Mahmutćehajić. “Kelam u umskim školama.”  Forum Bosnae 75-76 (2016), pp. 68-100.

Imaginal Worlds:  Ibn al-‛Arabī and the Problem of Religious Diversity.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1994, 208 pp.

• Turkish translation by Mehmet Demirkaya. Hayal Ālemleri: Ibn Arabī ve dinlerin çeşitliliği meselesi.  Istanbul: Kaknüs Yayınları, 1999, 223 pp.
• Indonesian translation by Achmad Syahid. Dunia Imaginal Ibnu ‘Arabi: Kreativitas Imaginasi dan Persoalan Diversitas Agama.  Jakarta: Risalah Gusti, 2001.
• Spanish translation by Ana Serrano and Pablo Beneito. Mundos imaginales: Ibn al-Arabi y la diversidad de las creencias. Madrid: Mandala, 2004, 333 pp.
• Persian translation by Sayyid Mahmūd Yūsuf-i Thānī and Mahmūd Sādiqī ‛Alīābādī. ‛Awālim-i khayāl: Ibn ‛Arabī wa masa’ala-yi kathrat-i dīnī. Tehran: Pazhūhishkada-yi Khumaynī, 1383/2004, 214 pp.
• Persian translation by Qāsim Kākā’ī. ‛Awālim-i khayāl: Ibn ‛Arabī wa masa’ala-yi ikhtilāf-i adyān. Tehran: Intishārāt-i Hirmis, 1384/2005, 296 pp.
• Persian translation by Najībullāh Shafaq. ‛Awālim-i khayāl.  Tehran: Mu’assasa-yi Āmūzishī and Pazhūhishkada-yi Khumaynī, 1386/2007.
• German translation by Peter Finckh. Bildhafte Welten: Ibn al-‘Arabī und die Frage der religiösen Vielhaft.  Zürich: Edition Shershir, 2015, 326 pp.

Faith and Practice of Islam: Three Thirteenth-Century Sufi Texts.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1992, 306 pp.  Also Kuala Lumpur: S. Abdul Majeed & Co., 1994; Lahore:  Suhail Academy, 2000.

• Turkish translation by Ömer Saruhanlıoğlu. YY. Sûfî metinlerinde iman ve amel.  Istanbul:  Litera Yayincilik, 2016.

The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-‛Arabī’s Metaphysics of Imagination.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1989, 478 pp.  Also Lahore:  Suhail Academy, 2000; Srinagar: Gulshan, 2009.

• Partial Indonesian translation by Achmad Nidjam, M. Sadat Ismail, and Ruslani. Introduction and chapters 1-3 as The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Tuhan Sejati dan Tuhan-tuhan Palsu.  Chapters 4-5 as The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Hermeneutika al-Quran Ibnu al-‘Araby.  Chapters 6-7 as The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Pengetahuan Spiritual Ibnu al-‘Araby.  Yogyakarta: Qalam, 2001.
• Persian translation by Mahdī Najafī Afrā. Tarīq-i ‘irfānī-yi ma‛rifat az dīdgāh-i Ibn ‘Arabī. Tehran:  Farāyin, 1389/2010.
• Turkish translation by Ömer Saruhanlıoğlu. Sûfi’nin bilgi yolu:  İbn-i Arabî’nin metafiziğinde hayal.  Istanbul:  Okuyan Us, 2016.

The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1983, 433 pp.  Also Lahore:  Suhail Academy, 2000; Srinagar: Gulshan, 2009. 

• Russian translation by Marietta Stepaniants and Andrey Smirnov. Moscow: Ladomir Publications, 1995.
• Indonesian translation by M. Sadat Ismail and Achmad Nidjam. Jalan cinta sang sufi: ajaran-ajaran spiritual Jalāluddīn Rūmī. Yogyakarta: Qalam, 2000.
• Persian translation by Shihāb al-Dīn ‛Abbāsī. Rāh-i ‛irfānī-yi ‛ishq: ta‛ālīm-i ma‛nawī-yi Mawlawī.  Tehran: Nashr-i Paykān, 1382/2004.
• Persian translation by Mahdī Sarrashtadārī. Tarīq-i sūfiyāna-yi ‛ishq. Tehran: Intishārāt-i Mihrandīsh, 1384/2005.
• Bosnian translation by Rešid Hafizović. Sufijski put Ljubavi: Rumijeva duhovna učenja.  Sarajevo: Naučnoistraživački institut “IBN SINA,” 2005.
• Turkish translation by by Ömer Saruhanlıoğlu. Sûfi’nin aşk yolculuğu: Mevlânâ’nin mânevi öğretisi.    Istanbul:  Litera Yayincilik, 2016.
• Spanish translation by Claudia Massa. El camino sufí del amor: las enseñanzas esperituales de Rūmī.  Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires: El Hilo de Ariadna, 2017.    
• Arabic translation by Shīmā’ Mullā Yūsuf. al-Tarīq ila’l-‘ishq al-sūfī.  Cairo: Ru’ya Li’l-Nashr wa’l-tawzī‛, 2017.

The Sufi Doctrine of Rumi: An Introduction.  Tehran: Aryamehr University Press, 1974, 96 pp.

• Persian translation by Shihāb al-Dīn ‛Abbāsī. Muqaddima bar ‛irfān-i Mawlawī in Ganjīna-yi Ma‛nawī-yi Mawlānā.  Tehran: Intishārāt-i Murwārīd, 1383/2004, pp. 41-119.
• New edition: The Sufi Doctrine of Rumi:  Illustrated Edition.  Bloomington, Indiana: World Wisdom Books, 2005, xiv + 103 pp.
• Spanish translation by Esteve Serra. La Doctrina Sufi de Rumi. Palma de Mallorca: Olañeta, 2008, 103 pp.
• Albanian translation by Edin Lohja. Doktrina sufiste e Rumiut. Tirana: Zemra et Traditës, 2009, 129 pp.

Translations

The Repose of the Spirits:  A Sufi Commentary on the Divine Names.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019, ca. 900 pp. 

Rashīd al-Dīn Maybudī.  Kashf al-Asrār: The Unveiling of the Mysteries.   Louisville: Fons Vitae/Amman, Jordan: Royal Aal Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, 2015, 627 pp. 

• •  2014. http://altafsir.com/Books/kashf.pdf. 

Mullā Sadrā, The Elixir of the Gnostics.  Text, translation, introduction, and notes.  Provo: Brigham Young University Press (Islamic Translation Series), 2003. Lahore:  Suhail Academy, 2005.

Jāmī, Lawā’ih.  In Sachiko Murata.  Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light: Wang Tai-yü’s Great Learning of the Pure and Real and Liu Chih’s Displaying the Concealment of the Real Realm.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2000, pp. 128-210.

Ibn al-‛Arabī, al-Futūhāt al-makkiyya.  Les Illuminations de la Mecque/The Meccan Illuminations: Textes choisis/Selected Texts (collaboration with M. Chodkiewicz, C. Chodkiewicz, D. Gril, and J. Morris).  Paris: Sindbad, 1989.

• • English sections reprinted in Ibn al ‛Arabi, The Meccan Revelations. New York: Pir Press, 2002.

‛Alī ibn al-Husayn, al-Sahīfat al-sajjādiyya.  The Psalms of Islam. Arabic text, English translation, introduction, and notes.  London: The Muhammadi Trust, 1988, 31 + 259 + 301 pp.; reprinted in Qom, Bargozedah Publications, n.d.

• • The Psalms of Islam: English Version. Birmingham, UK: al-Mahdi Institute, and Marsta, Sweden: Me’raj Educational Publishers, 2007, 313 pp.

J. Nurbakhsh (compiler). Sufism IV: Repentance, Abstinence, Renunciation, Wariness, Humility, Humbleness, Sincerity, Steadfastness, Courtesy. London: Khaniqahi-Nimatullahi, 1988, 166 pp.

‘Alī ibn al-Husayn.  Supplication: Makārim al-akhlāq.  London: Muhammadi Trust, 1983, 26 pp.

Fakhruddin ‘Iraqi: Divine Flashes (with P.L. Wilson).  With introduction and notes.  New York: Paulist Press (Classics of Western Spirituality), 1982, 178 pp.

• • Turkish translation by Ercan Alkan. Fahreddîn Irâkî: Aşk Metafiziği.  Istanbul: Hayykitab, 2012, 191 pp.

J. Nurbakhsh (compiler). Sufism [II]: Fear and Hope, Contraction and Expansion, Gathering and Dispersion, Intoxication and Sobriety, Annihilation and Subsistence. New York: Khaniqahi-Nimatullahi, 1982, 126 pp.

 ‛Alī ibn Abī Tālib.  Supplications (Du‛ā).  London: Muhammadi Trust, 1982, 66 pp.  Republished New York: Pir Press, n.d. (1919).

A Shi’ite Anthology.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1981, 152 pp.

• • Gulchīn-ī az ma‛ārif-i tashayyu‛. Translated by Sayyid Hādī Khusrawshāhī. Qum: Būstān-i Kitāb, 1389/2010, 184 pp.

J. Nurbakhsh (compiler). Sufism [I]: Meaning, Knowledge, and Unity. New York: Khaniqahi-Nimatullahi, 1981, 111 pp.

Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Tabātabā’ī.  Muhammad in the Mirror of Islam.  Tehran: Darol-kotob-el-Islamiya, 1970, 26 pp.

Editions and Editorial Supervision

The Essential Seyyed Hossein Nasr.  Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2007, xiv + 250 pp.

• • Turkish translation by Nurullah Koltaş. Hüsayin Nasr’in Temel Düşündeleri.  Istanbul: İnsan Yayınları, 2012. 

The Inner Journey: Views from the Islamic Tradition.  Sandpoint, ID: Morning Light Press, 2007, xxx + 318 pp.; Lahore:  Suhail Academy, 2011.

Assistant editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica, fascicles 3-8 (vol. I, pp. 225-896).  London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982-85.

An Annotated Bibliography of Islamic Science (collaboration with S.H. Nasr).  Vols. 1-2.  Tehran: Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy, 1975-78, 432, 317 pp.; Vol. 3, Tehran, 1991; vols. 1 & 2 reprinted Lahore: Suhail Academy, 1985. 

Edition of ‛Abd al-Rahmān Jāmī.  Naqd al-nusūs fī sharh naqsh al-fusūs.  Persian and Arabic text with critical apparatus, notes, English and Persian introductions, indexes.  Tehran: Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy, 1977, 648 pp.; second edition, Tehran: Cultural Studies and Research Institute, 1992.

Articles

“The Islamic Notion of Beauty.”  Journeys and Awakenings.  Edited by R.P. Corman, D.S. Beckett, D. Farber, and T.H. Lefkowitz.  Rhinebeck, N.Y.: Sacred Spirit Books, 2019, pp. 51-53.

“Moses and the Religion of Love:  Thoughts on Methodology in the Study of Sufism.”  Islamic Studies and the Study of Sufism in Academia:  Rethinking Methodologies. Edited by Yasushi Tonaga and Chiaki Fujii.  Kyoto:  Kyoto University, 2018, pp. 101-18.

“Rumi, Jalāl-al-Din vii.  Philosophy.”  Encyclopaedia Iranica.  August 2017.  http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/rumi-philosophy.

Sachiko Murata and William C. Chittick.  “The Importance of Sufism in Chinese Islam.”  The Door of Mercy:  Kenan Rifai and Sufism Today. International Symposium Proceedings.  Istanbul: Nefes, 2017, pp. 165-71.

“Ibn al-‘Arabī:  The Doorway to an Intellectual Tradition.” Journal of the Muhyiddin ibn ‘Arabi Society 59 (2016), pp. 1-15.

“Sufism.” The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism.  Edited by Glenn Alexander Magee.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016, pp. 83-94.

“The Quran and Sufism.”  The Study Quran.  Edited by S. H. Nasr et al.  New York: HarperCollins, 2015, pp. 1737-49.

 “Āqā Muḥammad Ridā Qumsha’ī.”  An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia:  From the School of Shiraz to the Twentieth Century.  Edited by S. H. Nasr and M. Aminrazavi.  London: I.B. Tauris, 2015, pp. 489-512.

“Themes of Love in Islamic Mystical Theology.”  Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Mystical Perspectives on the Love of God.  Edited by Sheelah Treflé Hidden.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp. 155-80.

“Love in Islamic Thought.” Religion Compass 8/7 (2014): pp. 229–38.

“The Religion of Love Revisited.” Journal of the Muhyiddin ibn ‘Arabi Society 54 (2013), pp. 37-59.

“Divine Love in Early Persian Prose.”  Temenos Academy Review 16 (2013), pp. 129-43.

“Ibn ‘Arabī on the Ultimate Model of the Ultimate.”  Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities.  Edited by Jeanine Diller and Asa Kasher.  Dordrecht: Springer, 2013, pp. 915-29.

With Sachiko Murata: “The Implicit Dialogue of Confucian Muslims.”  The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Inter-Religious Dialogue.  Edited by Catherine Cornille.  Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons, 2013, pp. 438-49.

“The Ambiguity of the Qur’anic Command.”  Between Heaven and Hell: Islam, Salvation, and the Fate of Others.  Edited by Mohammad Hasan Khalil.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 65-86.

“Islam and the Transformative Power of Love.”  Transmutatio: La vie ermetica alla felicità/The Hermetic Way to Happiness.  Quaderni di Studi Indo-Mediterranei V (2012), pp. 171-75

 “Why Study the Worldview of the Huiru? (2)”   Chinese translation in Journal of Hui Muslim Minority Studies 22.3 (2012), pp. 11-12.

“Afdal al-Din Kashani: Compositions.” An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, vol. 4:  From the School of Illumination to Philosophical Mysticism.  Edited by S. H. Nasr and M. Aminrazavi. London: I. B. Tauris, 2012, pp. 234-52.

“Sadr al-Din Qunawi: The Texts.”  An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, vol. 4:  From the School of Illumination to Philosophical Mysticism.  Edited by S. H. Nasr and M. Aminrazavi. London: I. B. Tauris, 2012, pp. 416-34.

“The Pivotal Role of Love in Sufism.”  Eranos Jahrbuch 2009-2010-2011: Love on a Fragile Thread.  Edited by Fabio Merlini, Lawrence E. Sullivan, Riccardo Bernardini and Kate Olson.  Daimon Verlag, 2012, pp. 255-73.

“Wahdat al-Wujūd in India.”  Ishraq: Islamic Philosophy Yearbook 3 (2012), pp. 29-40.

              http://iph.ras.ru/uplfile/smirnov/ishraq/3/4chitt.pdf

“Friendship and Love In Islamic Spirituality.”  ISOC Focus 2/3 (2012), pp. 7-12.

“Qūnawī on the One Wujūd.”  Journal of the Muhyiddin ibn ‘Arabi Society 49 (2011), pp. 117-27.

 “The Sword of Lā and the Fire of Love.”  Mawlana Rumi Review 2 (2011), pp. 10-27.  Persian translation by Hasan Lahouti, “Shamshīr-i lā wa ātish-i ‛ishq.”  Iran-nameh 25/1-2 (1388/2009). http://fis-iran.org/fa/irannameh/volxxv/1-2rumi/swordofno.

“The Dialectic of Love in Early Persian Sufism.”  The Journal of Dharma 36/1 (2011), pp. 99-113.

“Identität und Verifizierung.”  Al-Fadschr: Die Morgendämmerung 132 (9/17/11), pp. 23-27. http://www.al-fadschr.de/pdf/al-fadschr_nr_132_s_23.pdf

 “The Aesthetics of Islamic Ethics.”  Sharing Poetic Expressions:  Beauty, Sublime, Mysticism in Islamic and Occidental Culture. Edited by A.-T. Tymieniecka.  Dordrecht: Springer, 2011, pp. 3-14.

“Reason, Intellect, and Consciousness in Islamic Thought.”  Reason, Spirit and the
Sacral in the New Enlightenment: Islamic Metaphysics Revived and Recent Phenomenology of Life.  Edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka.  Dordrecht: Springer, 2011, pp. 11-35.  Brief version published as a pamphlet:  “Uncovering the Secrets of Consciousness: The Sufi Approach.”  Fifth Victor Danner Memorial.  Bloomington: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University, 2007, 22 pp.

“The Goal of Islamic Education.”  Studies in Comparative Religion:  Education in the Light of Tradition, edited by Jane Casewit.  Bloomington, Indiana: World Wisdom, 2011, pp. 85-92. Persian translation by Sayyid Amīr Husayn Asgharī as “Āmūzish dar Islām.” Ittilā‛āt-i Hikmat wa Ma‛rifat 3/6 (1387/2008), pp. 38-40.

“The Koran as the Lover’s Mirror.”  Universal Dimensions of Islam.  Edited by Patrick Laude.  Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2011, pp. 66-77.

“Navigating the Ocean of the Soul.”  Sophia (16/1) 2010, pp. 29-45.

“The Anthropology of Compassion.” Journal of the Muhyiddin ibn ‘Arabi Society 48 (2010), pp. 1-15.

“Baba Afdal on the Soul’s Immortality.” Ishraq: Islamic Philosophy Yearbook 1 (2010), pp. 132-40.

“Divine and Human Love in Islam.”  Divine Love: Perspectives from the World’s Religious Traditions.  Edited by Jeff Levin and Stephen G. Post.  West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Press, 2010, pp. 163-200.

“The Need for Need.”  International  Mevlānā Symposium Papers.  Istanbul: Haziran, 2010, pp. 1109-16.  Also in  Rumi’s Philosophy of Love/Rumijeva Filozofija Ubavi.  Edited by Nevad Kahteran.  Sarajevo: Sahinpasic, 2007, pp. 95-104 (English), 93-103 (Bosnian).  Also Iqbal Review 48/4 (2007), pp. 49-57.

“The Wisdom of Animals.” Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society 46 (2009), pp. 27-37.

“The Passing of the Moments.”  Lapses, vol. 2.  Edited by Jalal Toufic.  Istanbul: Istanbul Kültür Sanat Vakfi, 2009, pp. 43-50; Turkish translation, pp. 125-29.

“Ibn al-‛Arabī on Participating in the Mystery.”  The Participatory Turn:  Spirituality, Mysticism, Religious Studies.  Edited by Jorge N. Ferrer and Jacob H. Sherman.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008, pp. 245-64.

“Islam and Other Religions: The Universality and Particularity of Prophecy.”  The Religious Other: Towards a Muslim Theology of Other Religions in a Post-Prophetic Age.  Edited by Muhammad Suheyl Umar.  Lahore: Iqbal Academy, 2008, pp. 135-50.

“Iblīs and the Jinn in al-Futūhāt al-Makkiyya.”  Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms: Festschrift for Wolfhart Heinrichs on His 65^th Birthday.  Edited by Beatrice Gruendler and Michael Cooperson.  Brill: 2008, pp. 99-126.

 “The Recovery of Human Nature.” Transdisciplinarity in Science and Religion 4 (2008), pp. 281-93.

 “Worship.”  The Cambridge Companion to Classical  Islamic Theology.  Edited by Tim Winter.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. 218-36.

“Ibn Arabi.”  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ibn-arabi/.  5 August 2008, 12,500 words.

 “Muslim Eschatology.”  The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology.  Edited by Jerry L. Walls.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. 132-50.

 “The Muslim Intellectual Heritage and its Perception in Europe.” Forum Bosnae 39 (2007), pp. 107-24.

“The Muslim Intellectual Heritage and Modern Political Ideologies.” Forum Bosnae 38 (2007), pp. 101-16.

“The Spirit of the East.”  Conversation with Turan Koç in Arzın Merkezinde Buluşmalar/Meetings at the Center of the World.  Edited by Nevzat Bayhan.  Istanbul: Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Kultur A.S. Publications, 2007, pp. 162-80.

“The View from Nowhere:  Ibn al-‛Arabī on the Soul’s Temporal Unfolding.”  Timing and Temporality in Islamic Philosophy and Phenomenology of Life.  Edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka.  Dordrecht: Springer, 2007, pp. 3-10.

“The Traditional Approach to Learning,” Sacred Web 18 (2007), pp. 29-47.

“The Need for Need.”  Rumi’s Philosophy of Love/Rumijeva Filozofija Ubavi.  Edited by Nevad Kahteran.  Sarajevo: Sahinpasic, 2007, pp. 95-104 (English), 93-103 (Bosnian).  Also Iqbal Review 48/4 (2007), pp. 49-57.

 “The Place of Tian-fang Xing-li in the Islamic Tradition” (in Chinese translation). Nanjing Daxue Xuebao (Journal of Nanjing University) 43/3 (2006), pp. 50-53.

“Ibn ‛Arabī.” Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Donald Borchert.  Second edition, Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006, vol. 4, pp. 541-44. 

 “The Circle of Life in Islamic Thought.”  Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology on the Perennial Issue of Microcosm and Macrocosm.  Edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka.  Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2006, pp. 205-13.

“Mysticism in Islam.”  Sacred History Magazine (Jan/Feb 2006), pp. 30-39.

“Sufism and Islam.”  Sufism: Love & Wisdom.  Edited by Jean-Louis Michon and Roger Gaetani.  Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2006, pp. 21-32.

“The Pertinence of Islamic Cosmology.”  Reason and Inspiration in Islam: Theology, Philosophy and Mysticism in Islamic Thought.  Essays in Honour of Hermann Landolt.  Edited by Todd Lawson.  London: I. B. Tauris, 2005, pp. 274-83.

 “Love as the Way to Truth.”  Sacred Web 15 (2005), pp. 15-27.  Italian translation by Marco Cena, “L’amore come Via alla Verità nella tradizione sufi.”  Sufismo e confraternite nell’islam contemporaneo: Il difficile equilibrio tra mistica e politica.  Edited by Marietta Stepanyants.  Torino: Edizioni della Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli, 2003, pp.  13-25.

“Weeping in Classical Sufism.”  Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination. Edited by Kimberley Christine Patton and John Stratton Hawley.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005, pp. 132-44.

“Me & Rumi: The Autobiography of Shams-i Tabrizi.”  The Watkins Review 12 (Autumn/Winter 2005), p. 30.

“Spirit, Body, and In-Between.”  Parabola 30/3 (2005), pp. 6-10

“Slumber Seizes Him Not.”  Parabola 30/1 (2005), pp. 32-38

“The Central Point:  Qūnawī’s Role in the School of Ibn  ‛Arabī.”  Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‛Arabi Society 35 (2004), pp. 25-45

“Ibn ‛Arabī and Rūmī.”  Sacred Web 13 (2004), pp. 33-45.  Translated by H. Kamālī as “Shaykh-i Akbar wa Mawlānā.” Golestān: Quarterly of the Council for the Promotion of the Persian Language and Literature in North America 2/2 (1998), pp. 9-22; also Kīmiyā (Tehran) 5 (1382/2003), pp. 307-18

“Imagination as Theophany in Islam.” The Temenos Academy Review 6 (2003), pp. 65-82

“The Pluralistic Vision of Persian Sufi Poetry.”  Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 14/4 (2003), pp. 423-28; also in Sufi 61 (2004), pp. 14-19

“The In-Between: Reflections on the Soul in the Teachings of Ibn ‛Arabi.” The Passions of the Soul in the Metamorphosis of Becoming.  Edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka.  Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, pp. 29-38

“The Real Shams-i Tabrizi.”  Beacon of Knowledge: Essays in Honor of Seyyed Hossein Nasr.  Edited by Mohammad H. Faghfoory (Louisville: Fons Vitae, 2003), pp. 99-110.

“The Disclosure of the Intervening Image: Ibn ‛Arabī on Death.”  Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture 24/1 (2002), pp. 51-62

“Rumi’s Doctrine of Evolution.” Iqbal Review 43/2 (2002), pp. 61-81.  Also as “The Evolutionary Psychology of Jalal al-Din Rumi.”  Crafting the Intangible: Persian Literature and Mysticism.  Edited by Peter J. Chelkowski.  Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2013, pp. 70-90.

“On the Cosmology of Dhikr.”  Paths to the Heart: Sufism and the Christian East.  Edited by James S. Cutsinger.  Bloomington: World Wisdom Books, 2002, pp. 48-63.

With Sachiko Murata.  “Da profecia.”  Translated [from Vision of Islam, pp. 132-75] by Cynthia Marques de Oliveira.  Caminhos do Islã.  Edited by Marco Lucchesi. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Record, 2002, pp. 191-263.

“The Anthropocosmic Vision in Islamic Thought.”  God, Life, and the Cosmos: Christian and Islamic Perspectives.  Edited by Ted Peters, Muzaffar Iqbal, and Syed Nomanul Haq.  Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002, pp. 125-52.  Also published in Iqbal Review 42/2 (2001), pp. 47-70.

“The Absent Men in Islamic Cosmology.”  The Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr (The Library of Living Philosophers).  Edited by L. E. Hahn, R.E. Auxier, and L. W. Stone, Jr.  Chicago: Open Court, 2001, pp. 685-70.

• • Persian translation by Sayyid Amīr Husayn Asgharī as Rijāl al-ghayb. Tehran: Intishārāt-i Musāfir, 2013, 87 pp.

“Ibn ‛Arabī on the Benefit of Knowledge.”  Sophia 8/2 (2002), pp. 27-48.  Reprinted in The Essential Sophia.  Edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Katherine O’Brien.  Bloomington:  World Wisdom Books, 2006, pp. 126-43.  Persian translation as “Ebn ‛Arabi va Manfa‛at-e ‛Elm” by Alireza Rezayat and Gholamreza Dadkhah. Ettela‛at: Hekmat va Ma‛refat: Monthly Journal of Philosophical and Mystical Studies 4/2 (1388/2009), pp. 62-67

“A School that Drew from Ancient Greece.”  The Times, 26 October 2002, “Mysticism” supplement, p. 4

“Die Seele als Spiegelbild Gottes.”  Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 3 March 2002, p. 90   

“Rumi’s Path of Realization.” Iqbal Review 42/4 (2001), pp. 73-88; also in Transcendent Philosophy 8 (2007), pp. 1-18.  Reprinted in Rumi’s Teachings.  Edited by Seyed Ghahreman Safavi.  London Academy of Iranian Studies, 2008, pp. 25-38

“The Pertinence of Islamic Cosmology: Reflections on the Philosophy of Afdal al-Din Kashani,” Mulla Sadra and Transcendent Philosophy.  Tehran:  Sadra Islamic Philosophy Research Institute, vol. 2, 2001, pp. 529-42.   Also in Journal of Religious Thought (Andīsha-yi dīnī, Shiraz University), 1 (1999), pp. 3-20.

 “The Rehabilitation of Islamic Thought.” Iqbal Review 41/4 (2000), pp. 13-32; also as “Traditional Islamic Thought and the Challenge of Scientism.”  Dāneshnāmeh: The Bilingual Quarterly of Shahīd Beheshtī University 1/1 (2003), pp. 31-56.

“Time, Space, and the Objectivity of Ethical Norms: The Teachings of Ibn al-‛Arabī,” Islamic Studies 39 (2000), pp. 581-96; reprinted in Iqbal Review 45/4 (2004), pp. 3-19.

• • Bosnian translation by Rusmir Mahmutćehajić. “Vrijeme, prostor i objektivnost etičkih normi: Ibn Arebijeva učenja.ˮ Forum Bosnae, 74-75 (2016): 29-46.

“The Goal of Islamic Philosophy:  Reflections on the Works of Afdal al-Din Kashani.”  Sacred Web 5 (2000), pp. 17-29.  Albanian translation by S. Amataj as “Qëllimi i Jetës Filozofike.” Metafizika dhe Morali: Revistë filozofiko-shkencore 1:1 (2001), pp. 61-71.  Persian translation by Sayyid Amir Husayn Asghari as “Hadaf-i hayāt-i falsafī.”  In Sālik-i fikrat, edited by Muhammad Jawād Ismā‛īlī et al.  Tehran:  Mu’assasa-yi Pazhūhishī-yi Hikmat wa Falsafa, 2014.

“On the Teleology of Perception.”  Transcendent Philosophy 1 (2000), pp. 1-18.  Also in Perception According to Mulla Sadra. Edited by S. G. Safavi.  London: Salman Azadeh Publication, 2002, pp. 220-44.  Reprinted in Iqbal Review 47/4 (2006), pp. 1-20.  Persian translation by A. H. Qazwīnī in Khirad-nāma-yi Sadrā (Tehran) 26 (1380/2001), pp. 71-78.

“Ibn al-‛Arabī’s Hermeneutics of Mercy.”  Mysticism and Sacred Scripture.  Edited by Stephen Katz.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 153-168.

“Wahdat al-Shuhūd.”  Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. 10, (2000), pp. 37-39.

“Fargānī, Sa‛īd al-Dīn.”  Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. 9 (1999), pp. 255-56.

“Words to the Wise.”  Sufi 42 (1999), pp. 41-43.

“Traveling the Sufi Path: A Chishtī Handbook from Bijapur.”  The Heritage of Sufism III.  Late Classical Persianate Sufism.  Edited by Leonard Lewisohn and David Morgan.  Oxford: Oneworld, 1999, pp. 247-65.

“Introduction:  Sufism—Name and Reality.”  Merton and Sufism: The Untold Story.  Edited by Rob Baker and Gray Henry.  Louisville: Fons Vitae, 1999, pp. 15-31.

“The Paradox of the Veil in Sufism.”  Rending the Veil: Concealment and Secrecy in the History of Religions.  Edited by Elliot R. Wolfson.  Chappaqua, NY: Seven Bridges Press, 1999, pp. 59-85.

“Afdal al-Dīn Kāshānī’s Philosopher-King.”  Knowledge is Light: Essays in Honor of Seyyed Hossein Nasr.  Edited by Zailan Moris.  Chicago: ABC International, 1999, pp. 127-68.

“On Sufi Psychology: A Debate Between the Soul and the Spirit.”  Consciousness and Reality: Studies in Memory of Toshihiko Izutsu.  Edited by S.J. Ashtiyani, H. Matsubara, T. Iwami, and A. Matsumoto.  Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1998, pp. 341-66.  Also as “Abd al-Jalil of Allahabad on Psychology: A Debate Between the Soul and the Spirit.”  Islamic Heritage in South Asian Subcontinent.  Edited by Nazir Ahmed and I. H. Siddiqui.  Jaipur, India: Publication Scheme, 2000, pp. 157-85. Also as “A Sufi Psychological Treatise from India.”  Medieval India: Essays in Intellectual Thought and Culture.  Edited by I. H. Siddiqui.  New Delhi: Manohar, 2003, pp. 167-90.

“Teaching Islam in Medieval Iran: Ahmad Sam‛ani’s Refreshment of Spirits.”  Windows on the House of Islam: Muslim Sources on Spirituality and Religious Life.  Edited by John Renard.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, pp. 269-77.

“Between the Yes and the No: Ibn al-‛Arabī on Wujūd and the Innate Capacity.”  The Innate Capacity: Mysticism, Psychology, and Philosophy.  Edited by Robert Forman.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, 95-110.

“Tasawwuf 2.  Ibn al-‛Arabī and after in the Arabic and Persian lands and beyond.”  Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. 9 (1998), pp. 317-24.

“‛Erāqī.”  Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. 8 (1998), pp. 538-40.

“Can the Islamic Intellectual Heritage be Recovered?”  Iqbal Review 40/3 (1998), pp. 11-25; reprinted in Dialogue (Tehran) 3 (2001), pp. 41-57; reprinted in Altinoluk (Istanbul), 32 (March-April 2002), pp. 32-40; reprinted in The Path (Singapore) 1 (2005), pp. 40-49

“On Self-Help: A Sufi Perspective.”  Doors of Understanding:  Conversations on Global Spirituality in Honor of Ewert Cousins.  Edited by Steven L. Chase.  Quincy, IL: Franciscan Press, 1997, pp. 289-301.

“Stray Camels in China.”  Islam and Confucianism: A Civilizational Dialogue.  Edited by Osman Bakar and Cheng Gek Nai.  Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, 1997, pp. 35-59.

“Ibn al-‛Arabī.”  Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures.  Edited by H. Selin.  Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997, pp. 402-4.

“Sam‛ānī.”  Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. 7 (1997), p. 1024.

“Ebn al-‛Arabī.”  Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. 7 (1996), pp. 664-70.

“Presence with God.”  Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society 20, 1996, pp. 15-32

“Ibn ‛Arabī.”  History of Islamic Philosophy.  Edited by O. Leaman and S.H. Nasr.  London and New York: Routledge, 1996, pp. 497-509.

“The School of Ibn ‛Arabī.” History of Islamic Philosophy. Edited by O. Leaman and S.H. Nasr.  London and New York: Routledge, 1996, pp. 510-23.

“The Muhammadan Inheritance.”  Horizons Maghrébins 30 (Hiver 1995), pp. 55-61; reprinted in Iqbal Review 38, 1997, pp. 141-50.

“The Divine Roots of Human Love.” Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society 17, 1995, pp. 55-78.  Revised version in Ibn ‛Arabī, pp. 35-51.

“Mi‛rāj.”  The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World.  Edited by J.I. Esposito.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, vol. 3, pp. 117-18.

“Sufism: Sūfī Thought and Practice.” The Oxford Enclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. Edited by J.I. Esposito.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, vol. 4, pp. 102-9.

“The Tao of Sufism.”  Psychotherapy East and West: Integration of Psychotherapies (The Revised Edition of Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Psychotherapy).  Seoul: Korean Academy of Psychotherapists, 1995, pp. 132-39.

“Sa‛īd al-Dīn Farghānī.”  Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. 7 (1995), pp. 860-61.

“Sadr al-Dīn Kūnawī.”  Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. 7 (1995), pp. 753-55.

“Islamic Mysticism.”  Mysticism and the Mystical Experience.  Edited by Donald H. Bishop.  Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 1995, pp. 299-325.

“Ahmad Sam‛ānī on Divine Mercy.”  Sufi 27 (1995), pp. 5-11; Persian translation by Karīm Rabbānī.  Sūfī 29, 1995, pp. 6-13; also in Kīmiyā (Tehran), 1 (1377/1998), pp. 27-39.

“Mafhūm-i wahdat-i wujūd wa tatawwur-i ān.”  Pazhūhishgarān [Tehran] 11 (1372 [1994]), pp. 19-25.

“Khwāja Khurd’s ‘Light of Oneness’.”  In God is Beautiful and He Loves Beauty: Festschrift in Honour of Annemarie Schimmel.  Edited by Alma Giese and J. Christoph Bürgel, New York: Peter Lang, 1994, pp. 131-51.

“Toward a Theology of Development.”  Nameh Farhang [Tehran] 12 (1994), pp. 9-21.  Reprinted in Message of Thaqalayn [Tehran] 1/4 (1994), pp. 147-68.  Also in  Echo of Islam [Tehran], No. 124 (Oct. 1994), pp. 6-15.  Also in Iqbal Review [Lahore] 36:3 (1995), pp. 81-104.  Persian translation by S.M. Āwīnī, Nameh Farhang [Tehran] 12 (1994), pp. 50-63.  Second Persian translation in Ma‛rifat [Qom] 4/2 (1995), pp. 40-49.  Also as “Towards an Islamic Theology of Development.”  Towards Metanoia: Essays Presented to A. K. Saran on his Eightieth Birthday, edited by Ramesh Chandra Tewari (Lucknow: Coomarawamy Centre, 2002), pp. 92-113

“Rūmī and Wahdat al-wujūd.”  Poetry and Mysticism in Islam:  The Heritage of Rūmī.  Edited by A. Banani, R. Hovannisian, and G. Sabagh.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. 70-111.  Partially republished as “Rūmī and Wahdat al-Wujūd – Observations and Insights.”  Iqbal Review 48/4 (2007), pp.  3-27.  Abbreviated version as “Wahdat al-Wujūd in Islamic Thought.”  The Bulletin of the Henry Martyn Institute of Islamic Studies 10/1 (1991), pp. 7-27.

“Ethical Standards and the Vision of Oneness:  The Case of Ibn al-‘Arabī.” Mystics of the Book:  Themes, Topics and Typologies.  Ed. R.A. Herrera.  New York: Peter Lang, 1993, pp. 361-76.  Revised version in Imaginal Worlds, Chapter 3.

“Two Chapters from the Futūhāt al-makkiyya.”  Muhyiddin Ibn ‛Arabi: A Commemorative Volume.  Ed. S. Hirtensten and M. Tiernan.  Shaftesbury, Dorset: Element, 1993, pp. 90-123.

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“Meetings with Imaginal Men.”  Sufi 19 (1993), pp. 8-13.  Revised version in Imaginal Worlds, Chapter 6.

“Ibn al-‛Arabī.”  The Encyclopedia of Cosmology.  Ed. N.S. Hetherington.  New York: Garland, 1993, pp. 299-301.

“Islamic Cosmology.” The Encyclopedia of Cosmology.  Ed. N.S. Hetherington.  New York: Garland, 1993, pp. 322-29.

“The Spiritual Path of Love in Ibn al-‛Arabi and Rumi.”  Mystics Quarterly 19/1 (1993), pp. 4-16.

“Khwāja Khurd wa risāla-yi Nūr-i wahdat-i way.”  Iran Nameh 11/1 (1993), pp. 101-20

“The Myth of Adam’s Fall in Ahmad Sam‛ānī’s Rawh al-arwah.”  Classical Persian Sufism: from its Origins to Rumi.  Ed. L. Lewisohn.  London: Khaniqahi Nimatullahi Publications, 1993, pp. 337-59; second edition as The Heritage of Sufism, vol. 1 (Oxford: Oneworld, 1999).  Also in Sufi 15 (1992), pp. 5-13; Persian translation by T. Ghaffārī, Sūfī 19 (1993), pp. 6-16.  Persian translation by Majdoddin Kayvani. Mīrāth-i tasawwuf (Tehran: Nashr-i Markaz, 1384/2005), vol. 2, pp. 192-214. 

“Appreciating Knots:  An Islamic Approach to Religious Diversity.”  Interreligious Models and Criteria.  Ed. J. Kellenberger.  London: MacMillan, 1993, pp. 3-20.  Revised version in Imaginal Worlds, Chapter 10.

“Ibn al-‛Arabī’s Myth of the Names.”  Philosophies of Being and Mind:  Ancient and Medieval.  Ed. J.T.H. Martin.  Delmar, N.Y.: Caravan Books, 1992, pp. 207-19.

“Notes on Ibn al-‘Arabī’s Influence in India.”  Muslim World 82 (1992), pp. 218-41.

“The Circle of Spiritual Ascent According to al-Qūnawī.” Neoplatonism and Islamic Thought.  Ed. P. Morewedge.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1992, pp. 179-209.

“The Way of the Sufi.”  Sufi 14 (1992), pp. 5-10.

“Spectrums of Islamic Thought: Sa‛īd al-Dīn Farghānī on the Implications of Oneness and Manyness.” The Legacy of Medieval Persian Sufism.  Edited by L. Lewisohn.  London: Khaniqahi Nimatullahi Publishers, 1992, pp. 203-17; second edition as The Heritage of Sufism, vol. 2 (Oxford: Oneworld, 1999).   Persian translation by Majdoddin Kayvani.  Mīrāth-i tasawwuf (Tehran: Nashr-i Markaz, 1384/2005), vol. 1, pp. 623-44.

“‘Your Sight Today is Piercing’: Death and the Afterlife in Islam.”  Death and Afterlife: Perspectives of World Religions.  Ed. H. Obayashi.  New York: Greenwood Press, 1992, pp. 125-139.

“Islam.  For Teachers.”  Iran: A Precollegiate Handbook.  Ed. C. Albright.  Bethesda: Foundation for Iranian Studies, 1992, pp. 83-86.

“The Bodily Positions of the Ritual Prayer.”  Sufi 12 (1991-92), pp. 16-18.  French translation by E. de Longrée as “Les gestes de la prière en Islam.”  Initiations 7 (1991-92), pp. 15-19.

“Ebn al-‛Arabi as Lover.”  Sufi 9 (1991), pp. 6-9.  Persian translation by S. Hamza’ī.  Sūfī 13 (1370/1991), pp. 12-17.

“A Sufi Approach to Religious Diversity: Ibn al-‛Arabī on the Metaphysics of Revelation.”  Religion of the Heart: Essays Presented to Frithjof Schuon on his Eightieth Birthday.  Ed. S. H. Nasr and W. Stoddart.  Washington: Foundation for Traditional Studies, 1991, pp. 50-90.  Revised version in Imaginal Worlds, Chapter 9.

“The Islamic Concept of Human Perfection.”  The World and I 6/2 (February 1991), pp. 498-513.  Reprinted in Jung and the Monotheisms: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.  Ed. J. Ryce-Menuhim.  London and New York: Routledge, 1994, pp. 154-165

“Muhsin-i Fayd-i Kāshānī.”  Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. 5 (1991), pp. 475-76.

“The Theological Roots of War and Peace in Islam.”  Islamic Quarterly 34 (1990), pp. 145-163.  Reprinted in Iqbal Review 44/2 (2003), pp. 57-76.

“Khwāja Khurd’s Treatise on the Gnostic.”  Sufi 5 (1990), pp. 11-12.  Persian as “Risāla-yi ‛ārif-i Khwāja Khurd.”  Sūfī 4 (1368 [1989]), pp. 22-25.

“Ibn al-‛Arabī and his School.”  Islamic Spirituality: Manifestations.  Ed. S.H. Nasr.  New York: Crossroad, 1990, pp. 49-79.

“Rūmī and the Mawlawiyyah.” Islamic Spirituality: Manifestations Manifestations.  Ed. S.H. Nasr.  New York: Crossroad, 1990, pp. 105-26.  Persian translation by Fātima Shāh-husaynī.  ‛Irfān-i Īrān 31-32 (1386/2007), pp. 91-125.  Chinese translation by Ma Xiaopei. Journal of Northwest University for Nationalities: Philosophy and Social Science 2010 (1), pp. 18-30. 

“The Love Song of Ayatollah Khomeini” (with P. Clawson).  The New Republic (Sept. 4, 1989), p. 35.

“The World of Imagination and Poetic Imagery According to Ibn al-‛Arabī.”  Temenos 10 (1989), pp. 99-119.  Revised version in Imaginal Worlds, Chapter 5.

“From the Meccan Openings: The Myth of the Origin of Religion and the Law.”  The World and I 3/1 (January 1988), pp. 655-665.  Revised version in Imaginal Worlds, Chapter 8.

“Two Seventeenth Century Persian Tracts on Kingship and Rulers.”  Authority and Political Culture in Shi’ism.  Ed. S. Amir Arjomand.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1988, pp. 267-304.

“Higenshô kara Genshôsekai e: Ibun Arabī no ‘Sonzaisseiron’ [From the Nonphenomenal to the Phenomenal World: Ibn al-‛Arabī’s Wahdat al-wujūd].”  Isurāmu Shisô II.  Ed. T. Izutsu.  Tokyo: Iwanami, 1988, pp. 85-108.  English version as “Ebno’l-‘Arabi’s Doctrine of the Oneness of Being,” Sufi 4 (1989-90), pp. 6-14.  Persian translation by F. Farahzād, Sūfī 23 (1994), pp. 26-34.  Spanish translation by Ana Serrano, “La Unidad del Ser,” Postdata 15 (1995), pp. 30-41.  Second Spanish translation as “La doctrina de Ibn ‛Arabi sobre la Unidad del Ser,” Sufí 5 (2003), pp. 27-35. Revised English version in Imaginal Worlds, Chapter 1.

“Death and the World of Imagination: Ibn al-‘Arabī’s Eschatology.”  The Muslim World 78 (1988), pp. 51-82.  Revised version in Imaginal Worlds, Chapter 7.  Turkish translation by T. Koç.  Yeldi Iklim 2, May 1992, pp. 41-46.  Italian translation by Walter Librale.  “La morte et il ‘mundo immaginale’: l’escatologia akbariana.” Perennia Verba 4, 2000, pp. 59-106. Arabic translation by Mahmoud Youness.  Al-Mahajja 22 (2011), pp. 33-64.

“Microcosm, Macrocosm, and Perfect Man.”  Man the Macrocosm: Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Symposium of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society, March 1987, pp. 10-15; also Islamic Culture, 63 (1990), pp. 1-11.  Revised version in Imaginal Worlds, Chapter 2.

“Bābā Afzal.”  Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. 3 (1988), pp. 285-91.

“Dhikr.”  Encyclopedia of Religion.  New York: MacMillan, 1987, vol. 4, pp. 341-44.

“Eschatology.”  Islamic Spirituality: Foundations, ed. S.H. Nasr.  New York: Crossroad, 1987, pp. 378-409.

“‛Awāref al-ma‛āref.”  Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. 3, (1987), pp. 114-115.

“Rumi’s View of Death.”  Alserat 13/2 (1987), pp. 30-51.

“‛Aql.”  Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. 2 (1986), pp. 195-98.

“Belief and Transformation: The Sufi Teachings of Ibn al-‛Arabī.”  The American Theosophist 74/5 (1986), pp. 181-92.  Revised version in Imaginal Worlds, Chapter 9.

“Rumi’s View of Imam Husayn.”  Alserat (Papers from the Imam Husayn Conference, London, 6th-9th July 1984) 12/1-2 (1986), pp. 3-12.  Reprinted in Rumi’s Spiritual Shi’ism.  Edited by Seyed Ghahreman Safavi.  London Academy of Iranian Studies, 2008, pp. 40-47.  Translated into Persian by Hasan Lāhūtī as “Imām Husayn dar Nagāh-i Mawlawī,” Mīrāth-i Jāwīdān 17 (1376/1997), pp. 92-95; also in Gulistān 2/3 (1377/1998), pp. 107-18.

“‘God Surrounds all Things’: An Islamic Perspective on the Environment.”  The World and I 1/6 (June 1986), pp. 671-78.

“Beatific Vision and Poetic Imagery in Bahā’ Walad.”  Studies in Mystical Literature 5/2 (1985), pp. 21-32; also Sufi 7 (1990), pp. 5-9

“Islam and the Loss of Equilibrium.”  Journal of Dharma 10/1 (1985), pp. 42-59; also Islamic Quarterly 30 (1986), pp. 165-78.

“The Chapter Headings of the Fusūs.”  Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society 2 (1984), pp. 41-94.

    http://www.ibnarabisociety.org/articlespdf/fususchapterheadings.pdf

• • Sharh-i sarfaslhā-yi Fusūs al-hikam. Translated by Husayn Murīdī (Tehran: Ilhām, 2009).

“The Words of the All-Merciful.”  Parabola 8/3 (1983), pp. 18-25.

“The Five Divine Presences: From al-Qūnawī to al-Qaysarī.”  The Muslim World 72 (1982), pp. 107-128. Turkish translation by Turan Koç.  “Bes Ilahī Hazret: el-Konevī’den el-Kayserī’ye.” Uluslararasi Davud el-Kayserī Sempozyumu.  Ankara: Kayserī Büyüksehir Belediyese Kültür Müdürlügü, 1998, pp. 347-63.

“Sultan Burhān al-Dīn’s Sufi Correspondence.”  Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 73 (1981), pp. 33-45.

“Jāmī on Divine Love and the Image of Wine.”  Studies in Mystical Literature 1/3 (1981), pp. 193-209.

“Mysticism vs. Philosophy in Earlier Islamic History: The al-Tūsī, al-Qūnawī Correspondence.”  Religious Studies 17 (1981), pp. 87-104.

“Sadr al-Dīn Qūnawī on the Oneness of Being.”  International Philosophical Quarterly 21 (1981), pp. 171-84.

“Commentary on a Hadith by Sadr al-Dīn Qūnawī.”  Alserat 4/1 (1980), pp. 23-30.  Translated by G. Marchiano, “Un commento esoterico di Sadr Al-Din Qunawi.”  Conoscenza religiosa, 1983/1, pp. 10-17.

“Lama’at (Divine Flashes [of Fakhruddin ‘Iraqi]), Selections Translated” (with P.L. Wilson).  Gnosis 7-8 (1979), pp. 23-46.

“The Perfect Man as the Prototype of the Self in the Sufism of Jāmī.”  Studia Islamica 49 (1979), pp. 135-157.

“The Last Will and Testament of Ibn ‘Arabī’s Foremost Disciple and Some Notes on its Author.”  Sophia Perennis 4/1 (1978), pp. 43-58.

“Matāli‛-i īmān” by Sadr al-Dīn Qūnawī [d. 1273], edition of the Persian text.  Sophia Perennis 4/1 (1978), pp. 57-80.

“Ibn ‛Arabi’s own Summary of the Fusūs: ‘The Imprint of the Bezels of Wisdom’.”  Sophia Perennis 1/2 (1975), pp. 88-128; II/1, 1976, pp. 67-106.  Reprinted in the Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society 1 (1982), pp. 30-93.

              http://www.ibnarabisociety.org/articlespdf/naqshalfusus.pdf

“A Shadhili Presence in Shi’ite Islam?”  Sophia Perennis 1/1 (1975), pp. 97-100.

• • Turkish translation by Ahmet Murat Özel. “Șîa’da bir Șazelî İzi.”  Tasavvuf: ilmî ve akemik araştırma dergisi 33/1 (2014), pp. 119-22.

“Il sufismo operativo in Rumi.”  Translated by E. Zolla.  Conoscenza religiosa 3 (1975), pp. 272-88.

Book Reviews

The Unlimited Mercifier: The Spiritual Life and Thought of Ibn ‛Arabī, by Stephen Hirtenstein; Ibn ‛Arabī: The Voyage of No Return, by Claude Addas, Islamic Studies 43 (2004), pp. 511-13

Islamic Mysticism: A Short History, by Alexander Knysh. International Journal of Middle East Studies 33 (2001), pp. 473-75

The Secrets of God’s Mystical Oneness, by Mohammad Ebn-e Monavvar; translated by John O’Kane.  The Middle East Journal 48/1 (1994), pp. 155-156

Fez: City of Islam, by Titus Burckhardt.  Parabola 18/2 (1993), pp. 104-108

Nūruddīn Abdurrahmān-i Isfarāyinī: Le Révélateur des Mystères, by Hermann Landolt.  Journal of the American Oriental Society 111 (1991), pp. 160-161

Ibn ‘Arabī ou Le quête du Soufre Rouge, by Claude Addas.  Journal of the American Oriental Society 111 (1991), pp. 161-162

Rūmī and Sufism, by E. de Vitray-Meyerovitch, and Mirror of the Intellect, by Titus Burckhardt.  International Journal of Middle East Studies 22 (1990), pp. 363-364

Ibn ‘Arabī’s Theory of the Perfect Man and its Place in the History of Islamic Thought, by Masataka Takeshita.  Journal of the American Oriental Society 109 (1989), p. 707.

Freedom from the Self: Sufism, Meditation and Psychotherapy, by M. Shafii.  Iranian Studies 22 (1989), pp. 145-148

Words of Ecstasy in Sufism, by C.W. Ernst.  Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 20 (1986), pp. 103-104

Of Piety and Poetry:  The Interaction of Religion Literature in the Life and Works of Hakim Sana’i of Ghazna, by E. de Bruijn.  Journal of the American Oriental Society 105 (1985), pp. 347-350

al-Mu’jam al-sūfī by Su’ād al-Hakīm.  Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society 2 (1984), p. 99

Forewords and Afterwords

• Titus Burckhardt.  Introduction to Sufi Doctrine.   Bloomington, Ind.: World Wisdom Books, 2008, pp. ix-xii.
• Rusmir Mahmutćehajić.  The Mosque: The Heart of Submission.  Sarajevo: Buybook, 2004, pp. 9-19; New York: Fordham University Press, 2006, pp. ix-xvi
• Shaykh Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi al-Halveti. The Name and the Named. Louisville: Fons Vitae, 2000, pp. 11-25
• David Buchman.  Al-Ghazālī: The Niche of Lights.  Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1998, pp. xi-xii
• Nader Khalili.  Rumi: Fountain of Fire.  Tarzana, CA: Burning Gate Press, 1994, pp. 131-39
• Toshihiko Izutsu.  Creation and the Timeless Order of Things.  Ashland, OR:  White Cloud Press, 1994, pp. vii-ix
• Sheikh Muzaffer Ozak al-Jerrahi.  Adornment of Hearts.  Westport, CT: Pir Publications, 1991, pp. i-v

Interviews

“Bati medeniyetlerin en az medenisidir.” Yeni Şafak, 31 May 2015, p. 12.

With Kristian Petersen on Divine Love. http://newbooksinislamicstudies.com/2014/09/02/william-chittick-divine-love-islamic-literature-and-the-path-to-god-yale-up-2013/

“William Chittick ile Gelenekselcilik Modernite ve Tasavvuf Üzerine.” By Ahmet Faruk Çağlar.   Sabah Ülkesi 36 (2013), pp. 40-49.

“Prof. William Chittick ile ibn Arabī Üzerine.”  By Hayreddin Soykan.  Aylık 40 (July 2008). 

“Chahār Nāma az Shādrawān Ustād Āshtiyānī bi Duktur Wīliyām Chītīk wa Guftugū bā Ū.”  By Hasan Lāhūtī.  Ittilā‛āt-i Hikmat wa Ma‛rifat 13 (Farwardīn 1387/March-April 2008), pp. 43-59

“William Chittick İle Röportaj.”  By Yazar Altay Ünaltay.  Yarin: Türkiye ve dünyada (December 2007).  http://www.yarindergisi.com/index.php?option=com_content &task=view&id=129&Itemid=108

 “The Mystic Pen: Remembering the Life of Dr. Annemarie Schimmel.  Interview with Dr. William Chittick.”  By Katherine Schimmel Abdel Baki.  Wild River Review (October 2007).  http://www.wildriverreview.com/columns_schimmel.php

“Batı, Mevlānā’yı İslam’la anmaktan korkuyor,” by Tuba Ôzden.  Aksiyon Haftalık Haber Dergisi, 14 May 2007 pp. 78-79.  http://www.aksiyon.com.tr/detay.php?id =27406.   http://www.semazen.net/roportaj_detay.php?id=43

“Müslüman Olmadan Sufi Olunmaz,” by Musa Iğrek.  Interview in Zaman (Istanbul), 7 May 2007, pp. 1, 19.  http://www.semazen.net/roportaj_detay.php?id=42

 “Dunbālish raftam wa dar dām uftādam.”  Kitāb-i Hafta (8 February 2005) 225, p. 7

“An Interview with Professor William C. Chittick.”  By Michael Pittman. Sufi 55 (2002), pp. 8-11

“Bū’ī az Sirr-i Suhuf.”  Kīmiyā 4 (1381/2002), pp. 115-70

“Ma‛ārif-i Dīnī dar Dunyā-yi Jadīd.”  Naqd wa Nazar [Qum] 17-18 (1377-78/1998-99), pp. 132-153.  Bosnian translation by Muamer Kodric.  “Intervju s Williamom C. Chittickom.” Beharistan [Sarajevo] 7-8 (2002), pp. 96-105

“Birokracije su tetne, a rekugijske naj tetnije!” Bonjacki Avaz [Sarajevo]19 (1 November 1994), p. 8

“‛Irfān wa Tamaddun,” roundtable discussion with James Morris and Gh. Aavani.  Kayhān-i Farhangī  11/4 (June 1994), pp. 4-9

Invited Lectures (selected)

• “Death and the World of Imagination.”  University Seminar in Arabic Studies, Columbia University.  2/16/84
• “Rumi’s View of Imam Husayn.”  International Seminar on Imam Husayn, London.  7/7/84
• “‘God Surrounds all Things’:  An Islamic Perspective on the Environment.”  At the conference, Religious Perspectives on the Environment.  Carroll College, Montana. 10/12/84
• “A Sufi View of Islamic Eschatology.”  University of Indiana, Bloomington. 1/22/85
• “Images of Peace and War in Islam.”  The UN University for Peace, New York.  3/21/86
• “The Lover’s Roots in God according to Ibn al-‛Arabī.”  The Spirituality of Love in the Twelfth Century and Today.  Nantes, France, 6/3/86
• “Macrocosm, Microcosm, and Perfect Man in the Futūhāt of Ibn al-‛Arabī.” Man the Macrocosm.  Jesus College, Oxford, England.  3/28/87
• “The World of Imagination in Islamic Eschatology.”  University of Washington, Seattle, 4/23/87
• “Rumi and Wahdat al-wujūd.”  The von Grunebaum Center for Middle East Studies, UCLA.  4/26/87
• “The Islamic View of War and Peace.”  Rutgers University, Newark, N.J., 5/5/87
• “Wahdat al-wujūd in Islamic Thought.”  The Middle East Center, University of Chicago.  10/9/87
• “Death and the Afterlife in Islam.”  Death and the Afterlife in World Religions.  Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.  2/23/88
• “Death, Dreams, and the World of Imagination.”  Ohio State University, Columbus.  2/29/88
• “Death, Dreams and Mundus Imaginalis.”  Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.  4/8/88
• “The Interpretation of Eschatological Symbolism in Islam.”  The Taziya (the Shi’ite passion play).  Hartford Seminary, 5/20/88
• “Wahdat al-wujud in Islamic Thought.”  The Indian Institute of Islamic Studies, New Delhi.  8/6/88
• “Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi’s Views on Life after Death.”  Abul Kalam Azad Oriental Research Institute, Hyderabad, India.  9/26/88
• “Wahdat al-wujud in Islamic Thought.”  Henry Martyn Institute of Islamic Studies, Hyderabad, India.  10/10/88
• “Rumi’s View of Life after Death.”  The Indian Institute of Islamic Studies, New Delhi.  1/14/89
• “Political Order in Iranian History: Ideals and Reality—The View of Bābā Afzal Kāshānī.”  The Middle East Center, Harvard University.  3/21/89
• “Ibn ‘Arabi’s Influence in India.”  The First International Symposium on Ibn ‘Arabi.  Noto, Sicily.  4/3/89
• “Ibn al-‘Arabī’s Imaginal Universe.”  University Seminar in Medieval Studies, Columbia University.  10/10/89
• “Meetings with Imaginal Men.”  Fourth Annual Symposium on Ibn ‛Arabī.  Berkeley, CA.  11/9/90
• “Spectrums of Islamic Thought: Sa‛īd al-Dīn Farghānī on the Implications of Oneness and Manyness.” The Legacy of Mediaeval Persian Sufism.  School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.  12/5/90
• “Sufi Views of Adam’s Fall.”  The Annual McMartin Lecture in Religion, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.  3/2/91
• “Appreciating Knots:  An Islamic Approach to Religious Diversity.”  Inter-Religious Models and Criteria, The Claremont Graduate School.  4/3/92
• “The Myth of Adam’s Fall in Ahmad Sam‛ānī’s Rawh al-arwah.”  Persian Sufism: From its Origins to Rumi, The George Washington University, 4/12/92
• “Islam: Religion in Prime Time.”  Second Annual Ecumenical Lecture, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa.  2/3/94
• “Toward a Theology of Development.”  Conference on Islamic Culture and Civilization, Ministry of Public Guidance, Tehran, Iran, 2/8/94
• “Sufism” at the session “The Tao, Mysticism and Spiritual Theology.”  XVI International Congress of Psychotherapy, Seoul, Korea.  8/24/94
• “The Divine Roots of Human Love.”  III Congreso Internacional Ibn al‛Arabi:  Amore Divino, Amor Humano.  Murcia, Spain.  11/2/94
• “Teaching Rumi.”  Iranian Studies Seminar, Columbia University.  11/16/94
• “Sufi Views of Rahmah.” Hesed-Agape-Rahmah, Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario.  2/10/95
• “Islam’s Attitude Toward Other Religions with Special Reference to Chinese Religion.”  Islam and Confucianism: A Civilizational Dialogue, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.  3/14/94
• “Theological Bias in Koran Translations.”  Islam in America Conference, DePaul University, Chicago.  10/10/95
• “The Role of Imagination in Islamic Mysticism.”  Global and Multicultureal Dimensions of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Binghamton University.  10/21/95
• “Presence with God.”  Ninth Annual Symposium, Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society, San Francisco.  11/29/95
• “Ibn Arabi and the Shariah.”  Institute of Islamic Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan. 1/1/97
• “Theology of Development.”  South Asia Partnership, Lahore, Pakistan.  1/5/97
• “Significance of the Islamic Intellectual Tradition for the Modern World.”  Center for South Asian Studies, Punjab University, Lahore.  1/6/97
• “Ibn Arabi.” Lahore Arts Forum.  1/6/97
• “Art and the Imaginal.”  National College of Arts, Lahore.  1/7/97
• “The Paradox of the Veil in Sufism.”  Rending the Veil, New York University, Manhattan.  4/7/97
•  “Traveling the Sufi Path: A Chishti Handbook from Bijapur.”  Persianate Sufism in the Safavid and Mughal Period, The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.  5/19/97
•  “Jesus as a Muslim Type.”  Islamic Perspectives of Christianity, University of Glasgow, Scotland.  5/23/97
• “Rumi and Ibn al-Arabi.”  Conference on Rumi, Columbia University.  6/28/97
• “Philosophical Sufism,” Department of Philosophy, Kutztown University, Kutztown PA.  12/5/97
• “The In-Between: Reflections on Ibn al-‛Arabī’s Psychology,” The Society for the Study of Religion, Boston University.  2/19/98
• Saint Francis 1998 Summer Seminar in Religious Texts and Classics [for high school teachers]: The Poetry of Rumi.  Louisville, Kentucky.  6/24-27/98 
• “Sufism: Name and Reality.”  The Thomas Merton Center Foundation, Bellarmine College, Louisville, Kentucky
• “The Pertinence of Islamic Cosmology:  Reflections on the Philosophy of Afdal al-Dīn Kāshānī.” The World Congress on Mulla Sadra, Tehran, 5/24/99
• “The Heart of Islamic Philosophy:  Reflections on the Work of Afdal al-Dīn Kāshānī.”  Lo Femenino de lo Mistica, Seminario Internacional Complutense, Facultad de Filosofia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 11/2/99
• “On the Teleology of Perception,” International Conference on Perception According to Mulla Sadra and Western Schools of Philosophy, University of London (May 12-13).  5/12/2000
• “Chinese Sufism and Ibn Arabi,” Informal Islamic-Confucian Dialogue, Yenching Institute, Harvard University.  5/23/2000
• “The Crisis of the Islamic Intellectual Tradition.”  Keynote address at the Conference, “Time & Space in Islam,” Islamic Foundation, Villa Park, Illinois. 7/1/2000
• “Time and Space in Ibn Arabi.” Time & Space in Islam. Villa Park, IL. 7/2/2000
• “The Evolutionary Psychology of Jalal al-Din Rumi.”  The Eighth Reza Ali Khazeni Memorial Lecture in Iranian Studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.  7/2/2000
• “The Pluralistic Vision of Persian Sufi Poetry.” Pluralism and Religions in Iranian History and Culture, Georgetown University.  9/28/2000
• “Modern Science and the Eclipse of Tawhīd.”  Keynote address at the conference, “God, Life and Cosmos: Theistic Perspectives,” Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan.  11/6/2000
• “The Anthropocosmic Vision in Islamic Thought.”  At the conference, “God, Life and Cosmos: Theistic Perspectives,” Islamabad.  11/8/2000
• “The Rehabilitation of Islamic Thought.”  Iqbal Memorial Lecture 2000, Department of Philosophy, University of the Punjab, Lahore.  11/10/2000
• “The Structure of the Soul.”  Department of Academic Studies, Lahore College of Arts.  11/11/2000
• “The In-Between:  Reflections on the Signs of the Soul in Ibn Arabi.”  Towards a Dialogue between Phenomenology and Islamic Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, New York. 12/29/2000
• “Wahdat al-Wujud in India.”  At the conference, Inner Dimension of the Islamic World: The School of Ibn ‛Arabī, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.  1/23/01
•  “Finding the Centerpoint of the Circle of Finding: Sadr al-Din Qunawi on the Station of No Station.”  Seminar on “Philosophy, Poetry, and Religion,” Humanities Center, Harvard University.  4/9/01
•  “Islam in America and Islam and Other Religions,” public lecture, Hofstra University.  4/18/01
• “Az maqām-i lā maqām tā nuqta-yi wasat-i dā’ira-yi wujūd” (“From the Station of No Station to the Point at the Center of the Circle”).  At the conference, “Honoring Toshihiko Izutsu,” Tehran University, Tehran, Iran.  5/29/01
•  “On the Cosmology of Dhikr,” Paths to the Heart: Sufism and the Christian East, University of South Carolina.  10/19/01
•  “The Real Shams-i Tabrizi,” Beacon of Knowledge: Conference in Honor of Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr, George Washington University.  11/3/01
• “Principles and Practices of Islam,” Italian Cultural Institute, New York University.  11/26/01
• “The Circle of Life in Islamic Thought,” Creativity: Life, Cognition, Aesthetics in Islamic Philosophy and Phenomenology of Life, The American Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta.  12/28/01
• “Reflections on Shams-i Tabrizi.”  Religious Transformations from Medieval to Early Modern:  Sawyer Seminar on Islam, University of Chicago.  1/18/02
• “Rumi’s Path of Realization.”  Keynote speech, International Conference on Mawlawi Rumi, Institute of Islamic Studies, London. 1/26/02
• “The Role of Intelligence in Islamic Philosophy.”  Seventeenth Giorgio Levi Della Vida Award and Conference in Islamic Studies (in honor of Mohammad Arkoun):  “From Islamology to the Critique of ‘Islamic’ Reason.”  Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA.  5/11/02
•  “The Search for Meaning in the Islamic Intellectual Tradition.”  The Science of Nonlocality and Eastern Approaches to Exploring Ultimate Reality, Jongny-sur-Vevey, Switzerland.  6/23/02
•  “Imagination as Theophany in Islam.”  The Temenos Academy, London. 6/26/02
•  “Christian and Islamic Mysticism.”  Four joint lectures, with Ewert Cousins (Fordham, emeritus), at the New York Open Center, October 2002
•  “Love as the Way to Truth.”  Sufism and Muslim Brotherhoods: Their Role and Influence in Contemporary Islam.  The Edoardo Agnelli Centre for Comparative Religious Studies, Turin, Italy, 11/20/02
• “Divine and Human Love in the Poetry of Rumi.” Hampshire College. 3/12/03
• “Rumi’s Divine and Human Beloved:  The Enigma of Shams-i Tabrizi.” Notre Dame University.  3/16/03
• “The Qur’ān as the Lover’s Mirror.”  Sacred Sources: The Bible & the Qur’ān, A Symposium.  Georgetown University.  3/18/03
•  “The Immortality of the Soul in Baba Afdal.” The Humanities Institute, Bucknell University.   3/22/03
•  “The Central Point:  Qunawi’s Role in the School of Ibn ‘Arabi.”  Symposium on The Unity of Existence: Ibn ‛Arabī and his School, Worcester College, Oxford, 5/3/03
• “Islamic Mysticism.”  David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, Brigham Young University. 5/28/03
• “The Origin and the Return: The Journey Toward Salvation in Islam.”  Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts, Brigham Young University. 5/29/03
• “Rumi, Poet of Love and Transformation.”  Four-part seminar at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington.  3/6/04
• “Ibn Arabi at the Parting of the Ways in Andalusia.”  The Medieval and Interdisciplinary Studies Lecture Series, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.  3/26/04
• “Sufism and the Islamic Intellectual Tradition.”  Four lectures at the Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.  6/7-28/04
• “The Muslim Intellectual Heritage and its Perception in Europe.”  New Perspectives on Peace:  The Second International Summer School on Religion and Public Life, Sarajevo/Mostar.  7/15/04
•  “The Muslim Intellectual Heritage and Modern Political Ideologies.” New Perspectives on Peace:  The Second International Summer School on Religion and Public Life, Sarajevo/Mostar.  7/16/04
• “Islam, Ideology, and the Methodology of Tawhid.”  Sixth Annual International Philosophical Colloquium on Unity and Plurality in Europe:  Religion and Civil Society.  International Forum Bosnia, Sarajevo.  7/23/04
• “The Dialectic of Love in Early Persian Sufism.”  The Fifteenth Annual Noruz Lecture, Foundation for Iranian Studies and George Washington University.  Washington, D.C.  3/23/05
• “Comments on Stepanyants and Burrell.”  In the panel, Dialogue between Islamic and Western Civilizations. The Beijing Forum, Beijing China, 11/17/05
•  “The Place of T’ien-fang hsing-li in the Islamic Tradition.”  Dialogue between Chinese and Islamic Civilizations: Cultural Dialogue and Cultural Consciousness.  Yinchuan, China, 11/19/05
•  “The Temporal Unfolding of the Soul in the View of Ibn ‛Arabī.”  The Temporal and Temporality in Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Convention, New York City.  12/28/05
• Liu Chih’s Adaptations of his Persian Sources.”  Nanjing University—Harvard-Yenching Forum for Dialogue between Chinese and Islamic Civilizations: The Global Significance of Local Knowledge.  June 16-18, Yunnan University, Kunming, China.   6/17/06
• “The Traditional Approach to Learning.” University of Alberta, Edmonton, 9/24/06.
• “Uncovering the Secrets of Consciousness:  The Sufi Approach.”  The Fifth Annual Victor Danner Memorial Lecture in Islamic Studies.  Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington. 4/13/07
• Conversation with Turan Koç.  Arzin Merkezinde Buluşmalar/Meetings at the Center of the World, sponsored by Istanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi (Istanbul Municipality).  5/6/07
• “The Need for Need.”  International Symposium on Mevlānā Celāleddin Rūmī, Istanbul-Konya.  5/8/07
• “Navigating the Ocean of the Soul: Sufism.” Asia House, London, 10/16/07.
• “The Other Side of Islam.”  The 2007 Annual Davidson Lecture.  The College of the Humanities, Carleton University, Ottawa.  11/2/07
• “The Teaching of Molavi/Rumi.”  A Conference in Celebration of Molana Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Molavi Rumi, The College of the Humanities, Carleton University, Ottawa.  11/3/07
• “The Wisdom of Animals.”  International Symposium on Ibn Arabi and the Modern Era, Istanbul. 5/24/08
• “The Goal of Islamic Education.”  Keynote speech at The International Seminar on the Goal of Education According to Modern and Traditional Views, Tirana, Albania. 5/31/08
• “Baba Afdal and the Science of the Cosmos.”  Institute of Wisdom and Philosophy, Tehran. 6/11/08
• “The Pivotal Role of Love in Sufism.”  Love in Esoteric Traditions:  Eranos Dialogue, Moscia, Switzerland.  11/16/08
• “Liu Zhi’s Technical Terms.”  The Islamic College, London.  1/22/09
• “Arabic-Chinese Correlations in Liu Zhi.”   The Harvard-Yenching Institute, Cambridge, Mass.  6/8/09
• “The Origins of the Traditional School.”  Northwest University for Nationalities, Lanzhou, China.  6/24/09
• “The Traditional Worldview.” Northwest University for Nationalities, Lanzhou, China.  6/25/09
• “The Traditional Islam of Seyyed Hossein Nasr.” Northwest University for Nationalities, Lanzhou, China.  6/27/09
• “The Role of Love in the Islamic Intellectual Heritage.” Northwest University for Nationalities, Lanzhou, China.  6/29/09
• “The Anthropology of Compassion.”  Keynote address at the conference, “Islam, Sufism and the Heart of Compassion.”  New York Open Center.  11/6/09
•  “The Aesthetics of Islamic Ethics:  Love, Beauty, and the Perfection of the Soul.”  The Wayne Leys Memorial Lecture in Philosophy; keynote address at the Twelfth Annual Building Bridges Graduate Student Philosophy Conference:  Southern Illinois University Carbondale.  11/14/09
• “The Role of Love in the Quranic Worldview.”  Inaugural public lecture of the Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. 1/22/10
• “The Sufi Influence on Chinese Muslim Thought.”  Distinguished Lecture Series, Islamic Civilizations and Societies Department, Boston College. 3/11/10
• “Talking about God in Chinese.”  Comparative Theology Program, Boston College. 3/11/10
• “Exploring the Islamic East:  China and the Indian Subcontinent.”  Comparative Theology Program, Boston College.  3/12/10
• “Friendship and Love in the Islamic Tradition.”  Oberlin College.  10/7/10
• “The Contemporary Value of Islamic Studies in China.”  Keynote Lecture, Opening Ceremony of the Kenan Rifai Distinguished Professorship in Islamic Studies.  Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Peking University.  11/8/11
•  “The Importance of Islamic Studies in China.”  Department of Religious Studies, Minzu University, Beijing.  11/9/11
•  “Why Study the Worldview of the Huiru? (2)”  First annual conference of The Ken’an Refai Distinguished Professorship of Islamic Studies:  The Contemporary Value of the Worldview of the Huiru and Islamic Studies in China.  Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Peking University.  6/9/12
• “The Sufi Sources of Tianfang Xingli.”  The Institute of World Religions, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing.  6/12/12
• “Islam: A Religion of Love?”  The Wooster Forum: public lecture at the College of Wooster.  9/27/12
•  “The Religion of Love Revisited.”  Keynote lecture at the conference, Ibn ‘Arabi & Rumi: Being Fully Human, Graduate Theological Union, San Francisco.  5/3/13.
• “Ibn ‘Arabi: The Doorway to an Intellectual Tradition.”  Keynote lecture at the conference, A Living Legacy: Ibn ‘Arabi in Today’s World, Columbia University, 10/23/15
• “Moses in the Religion of Love.”  The First International Symposium of the Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Kyoto University: “Islamic Studies and the Study of Sufism in Academia: Rethinking Methodologies.” 5/20/17
• “The Real, the Unreal, and the Metaphor.”  The Real in Islam: Histories of Physicality and Spirituality from South Asia and Beyond.  The University of Pennsylvania.  2/16/18
• Six lectures on the divine names; two panel discussions.  The International Intensive Summer School of Sufi Studies.  Uskudar University, Istanbul.  7/21-29/18.
• “Ahmad Sam’ani’s Rawh al-arwah in Khorasani Sufism.”  Columbia University Seminar on Iranian Studies. 2/18/19