of William C. Chittick's Books and Articles Reviews

Reviews Arranged By Book Name

The Psalms of Islam (1988)

  • The Psalms of Islam, review by Christian W. Troll, Newsletter of the Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham UK, No 22 (1989)
  • The Psalms of Islam, review by B. B. Lawrence, CHOICE (May 1989)
  • The Psalms of Islam, review by S. Ali Reza Nazvi, Islamic Studies 24 4 (1990)
  • The Psalms of Islam, review by Michael A. Sells, Religious Studies Review Vol 20 No 1 (1994)

The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn Al-Arabi’s Metaphysics of Imagination (1989)

  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge, review by Pablo Beneito, Anaquel de estudios arabes (1991)
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge, review by Hermann Landolt, The Middle East Journnal
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge, review by R.W.J. Austin, Newsletter of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society (1990)
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge, review by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Aries (Paris No 14)
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge, review by H. T. NORRIS, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Vol 53 Part 3 (1990)
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge, review by Michel CHODKlEWICZ Bulletin Critique des Annales Islamologique (1990)
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge, review by B.B Lawrence, Choice (1990)
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge, review by DAVID BURRELL & PATRICK D. GAFFNEY, Commonweal Vol CXVIII No 5 (1991)
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge, review by Yaqub ibn Yusuf, Gnosis (1991)
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge, review by Arthur F. Buebler, The Iqbal Review (Oct 89 – April 1990)
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge, review by Victor Danner, Journal of Asian History vol 25.1 (1991)
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge, review by Martin Lings, Journal of Islamic Studies Vol 2 No 1 (1991)
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge, review by Th. Emil Homerin, Journal of the American Academy of Religion Vol LX No 1 (1992)
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge, review by Alexander Knysh Journal of the Muhyiddin lbn Arabi Society Vol IX (1991)
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge, review by IAN Richard NETTON, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Vol 1 Part 1 (April 1991)
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge, review by JAMES E. ROYSTER, The Muslim World 1 (1990)
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge, review by Carl W Ernst, Parabola (1990)
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge, review by Marietta Stepaniants, Philosophy East and West Vol 41 No 2 (1991)
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge, review by John Renard, The Religious Studies Review Vol 20 No 4 (1994)
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge, Vostok (Narodi Azii i Afriki) (1991). Russian
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge, review by Annemarie Schimmel, Die Welt des Islams 32 (1992)
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge, review by Theology Digest Book Survey 36 4 (1989)
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge, review by James E. Royster, The Muslim World 1 (1990)
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge, review by James Winston Morris, Journal of the American Oriental Society 111 3 (1991)
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge, review by Carl-A Keller, Revue de Theologie et de Philosophie (1995) French
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge, review by The Reader’s Review (1994)
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge, review by Carl W Ernst, Parabola
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge, quoted by Yannis Toussulis,Gnosis Magazine (1995)

Faith and Practice of Islam (1992)

  • Faith and Practice of Islam, review by W. Madelung, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Series 3 Part 4 No 1 (1994)
  • Faith and Practice of Islam, review by Carl W. Ernst, The Reader
  • Faith and Practice of Islam, review by Julian Johansen, Journal of lslamic Studies 5 2 (1994)
  • Faith and Practice of Islam, review by Gerhard Bowering, Iqbal Reivew 37 1
  • Faith and Practice of Islam, review by Pierre Lory, Bulletin Critique des Annales Islamologiques (1996) French
  • Faith and Practice of Islam, review by The Royal Asiatic Society series 3 part 4 no 1 (1994)
  • Faith and Practice of Islam, review by Julian Johansen, Journal of Islamic Studies 5 2 (1994)
  • Faith and Practice of Islam, review by Theology Digest Vol 40 No 3 (1993)
  • Faith and Practice of Islam, review by The Reader Vol III Issue 2 (1993)

Imaginal Worlds: Ibn al-‘Arabi and the Problem of Religious Diversity (1994)

  • Imaginal Worlds, review by J. Bussanich, Choice (1995)
  • imaginal Worlds, review by Leonard Lewisohn, Journal of the American Oriental Soceity 118 2 (1998)
  • imaginal Worlds, review by Oliver Leaman, Journal of Islamic Studies 8 no 1 (1997)
  • imaginal Worlds, review by Muhammad Khalid Masud, Journal of Ecumenical Studies vol 34 no 4 (1997)
  • imaginal Worlds, review by Pierre Lory, Bulletin critique n 7 (1990)
  • imaginal Worlds, review by Norman Calder, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Stdies vol 60 no 3 (1997)
  • imaginal Worlds, review by Latimah S Peerwani, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies vol 22 (1995)
  • imaginal Worlds, review by Bernard Weiss, Int J Middle East Studies 29 (1997)
  • imaginal Worlds, review by David T Hartman, The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal vol 14 no 3 (1995)
  • imaginal Worlds, review by David Emmanuel Singh, The Bulletin vol 13 no 3 &4 (1994)
  • imaginal Worlds, review by Elton A Hall, Iqbal Review 38 1 (1997)
  • imaginal Worlds, review by Theology Digest (Fall 1995)
  • imaginal Worlds, review by Michel Chodkiewicz, Bulletin critique des Annales Islamologiques n 7 (1990)
  • imaginal Worlds, review by Arthur F Buehler (1995)
  • imaginal Worlds, review by Choice vol 32 no 8 (1995)

The Vision of Islam (1994/1998/2006)

  • The Vision of Islam, review by M. Swartz, Choice Vol 32 No 10 (1995)
  • The Vision of Islam, review by James F. DeRoche, Library Journal Vol 119 No 19 (1994)
  • Murata and Chittick, The Vision of Islam, review by A Rippin, The Journal of Religion vol 76 no 3 (1996)
  • Murata and Chittick, The Vision of Islam, review by Philosophy East and West vol 46 (1996)
  • Murata and Chittick, The Vision of Islam, review by Roger DU Pasquier, Connaissance des Religions (1998) French
  • Murata and Chittick, The Vision of Islam, review by Maryam Jameelah, Iqbal Review vol 38 (1997)
  • Murata and Chittick, The Vision of Islam, review by Gai Eaton, Islamic Quarterly (1995)
  • Murata and Chittick, The Vision of Islam, review by The Reader’s Review (1995)
  • Murata and Chittick, The Vision of Islam, review Frederic A Brussat, Values & Visions Reviews Service (1995)
  • Murata and Chittick, The Vision of Islam, Friday Time 5 11 (1998)
  • Murata and Chittick, The Vision of Islam, review by Khaled Ahmed, Friday Time 5 11 (June 1998)
  • Murata and Chittick, Vision of Islam, review by S Vahiduddin, Islamic Culture Vol LXXI No 4 (1997)

The Essential Seyyed Hossein Nasr (Perennial Philosophy Series) (2007)

  • The Essential Seyyed Hossein Nasr, review by Keith Critchlow, Resurgence No 247 (2008)
  • The Essential Seyyed Hossein Nasr – review by John Jaeger, Reviews of ESHN 2007
  • The Essential Seyyed Hossein Nasr, review by Transcendent Philosophy 10 p. 307-316 (2009)

THE INNER JOURNEY Views from the Islamic Tradition (2010)

Ibn ‘Arabi: Heir to the Prophets (Makers of the Muslim World) (2012)

  • Ibn ‘Arabi Heir to the Prophets (Makers of the Muslim World) review by Alan Godlas (2007)

In Search of the Lost Heart: Explorations in Islamic Thought (2012)

  • In Search of the Lost Heart, review by Joel C. Richmond, JMIAS Vol. 51 (2012)
  • In Search of the Lost Heart, review by Bonmariage, Review of SLH (Le Muséon 123, no. 3-4, (2013). French
  • In Search of the Lost Heart, review by Keith Critchlow, Resurgence No 247 (2008)
  • In Search of the Lost Heart, review by Taneli Kukkonen, Journal of Shia Islamic Studies, Vol 7 num 2 (2014)
  • In Search of the Lost Heart, review by Amina Inloes, Journal of Shia Islamic Studies, Vol. VI · No. 2 (2013)
  • In Search of the Lost Heart, review by Axel Marc Takacs, JIS Islamic Sciences Vol. 11 No. 2 (Winter 2013)
  • In Search of the Lost Heart, review by Imran Mogra, The Muslim World Book Review 34 4 (2015)
  • In Search of the Lost Heart, review by Mark Stone, Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 25 3, 377-378 (2014)
  • In Search of the Lost Heart, review by Muhammad Isa Waley, Waley MRR
  • In Search of the Lost Heart, review by Rose Deighton, SLH Iranian Studies (2013)
  • In Search of the Lost Heart & Divine Love, review by John Renard, Religion and the Arts Vol. 19 (2015).
  • In Search of the Lost Heart, review by Zaidi SLH (SW 36, 2016)

Divine Love: Islamic Literature and the Path to God (2013)

  • Divine Love, review by Annabel Keeler, Journal of sufi studies 4 p.85–98 (2015)
  •  Divine Love & In Search of the Lost Heart, review by John Renard, Religion and the Arts Vol. 19 (2015).
  • Divine Love, review by Todd Lawson, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 137, No. 3 p. 629-632 (July-September 2017)

Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul: The Pertinence of Islamic Cosmology in the Modern World (2013)

  • Science of the cosmos, science of the soul, review by Daniel Martin Varisco, Contemp Islam Springer (2008)
  • Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul, review by Peter Samsel, Sophia The Journal of Traditional Studies 14 1 (2008)
  • Science of the Cosmos Science of the Soul, review by Salman Bashier, JMIAS 43 (2008)

Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light: Wang Tai-yu’s Great Learning of the Pure and Real and Liu Chih’s Displaying the Concealment of the Real Realm. With a New Translation of Jami’s Lawa’ih from the Persian by William C. Chittick (2000)

  • Murata and Chittick, Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light, review by Sajjad Rizvi, Transcendent Philosophy vol 2 no 2 (2001)
  • Murata and Chittick, Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light, review by Zvi Aziz Ben-Dor, Int J Middle East Studies 35 (2003)
  • Murata and Chittick, Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light, review by Jackie Armijo-Hussein, The Journal of Asian Studies (2001)

Sufism: A Short Introduction (A Beginner’s Guide) (2007/2011)

  • Sufism – A Short Introduction, review by Dheen Mohamed, IS (2002)

The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn Al-‘Arabi’s Cosmology (1997)

  • The Self-Disclosure of God, review by Pierre Lory, Bulletin Critique des Annales Islamologique vol 16 (2000/2001)
  • The Self-Disclosure of God, review by Gerhard Bowering, Journal of the American Oriental Society 121 1 (2001)
  • The Self-Disclosure of God, review by Masataka Takeshita, WZKM (1998)
  • The Self-Disclosure of God, review by Brannon Wheeler, Religious Studies Review vol 25 no 4 (1999)
  • The Self-Disclosure of God, review by TD (Theology Digest) 45 3 (1998)
  • The Self-Disclosure of God, review by J Bussanich, Choice vol 35 no 10 (1998)
  • The Self-Disclosure of God, review by Oliver Leaman, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies vol 62 no 1 (1999)
  • The Self-Disclosure of God, review by Ian Richard Netton, BJMES (1999)
  • The Self-Disclosure of God, review by Muzaffar Iqbal, Islamic Studies vol 40 no 2 (2001)
  • The Self-Disclosure of God, review by Shahzad Bashir, Int J Middle East Stud 36 (2004)

Samʿānī’s The Repose of the Spirits: A Sufi Commentary on the Divine Names (2019) 

  • review by Mohammad Amin Mansouri, journal of Sufi Studies 11 (2022) 137–148
  • review by John Zaleski, Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies, Volume 7, Number 1, May 2022, pp. 102-106 (Article)
  • review by Omid Safi, Religious Studies Review, VOLUME 47, NUMBER 1 (MARCH 2021)