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William Chittick

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William C. Chittick (* 1943 in Milford, Connecticut, USA) ist ein amerikanischer Professor für Religionswissenschaft an der Stony Brook University, State University of New York, Autor und Übersetzer verschiedener Werke über den Islam, Sufismus, Schiismus und persische Literatur.

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2020“Like the philosophers, Sufis aimed explicitly at overcoming the forgetfulness endemic to the human “soul” or “self” (the same word nafs is used in both senses).”Eigene WorteReligious Experience in Traditional Islam in The Cambridge Companion To Religious Experience, (2020) p. 135-137Die ganze Aussage lesen

2014Guggenheim-StipendiumAuszeichnung2007“To the extent that people fail to actualize their fitra, they remain ignorant of who they are and what the cosmos is.”Eigene WorteScience of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul, (2007) p. 29-30.Die ganze Aussage lesen

2002“The first function of the prophets is to “remind” people of their own divinely given reality.”Eigene WorteOn the Cosmology of Dhikr in Paths to the Heart: Sufism and the Christian East (2002), p. 49.Die ganze Aussage lesen

2000“The Koran commonly refers to the knowledge brought by the prophets as “remembrance” (dhikr) and “reminder” (dhikra, tadhkir), terms that derive from the root dh-k-r.”Eigene WorteSufism: A Beginner's Guide, (2000) p. 63.Die ganze Aussage lesen

1994“To be human is to be born with the fitra, which is an innate recognition of tawhid that is represented mythically by the Covenant of Alast and the Trust.”Eigene WorteThe Vision of Islam, (1994) p. 136.Die ganze Aussage lesen

1989“Few concerns are as central to Islam as the search for knowledge (‘ilm).”Eigene WorteThe Sufi Path of Knowledge, (1989) p. 147.Die ganze Aussage lesen

1943Geboren29. Juni 1943

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The key to the Islamic intellectual tradition is precisely the intellect, which is nothing but the soul that has come to know and realize its full potential.
2007 · Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul, (2007) p. 29., Eigene Worte
To lose the ability to see with the eye of tawhid means to fall into seeing with the eye of shirk, or associating other gods with God.
2007 · Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul, (2007) p. 47., Eigene Worte
Every attribute of God is found in the innate disposition (fitra) of the human being.
1998 · The Self-Disclosure of God, (1998) p. xxiii., Eigene Worte