William C. Chittick 
In Search of the Lost Heart [EPUB ebook] 
Explorations in Islamic Thought

In Search of the Lost Heart brings together twenty-six essays by William C. Chittick, renowned scholar of Sufism and Islamic philosophy. Written between 1975 and 2011, most of these essays are not readily available in Chittick’s own books. Although this is a collection, its editors have crafted it to be a book ‘sufficient unto itself, which, when taken as a whole, can be said to explore the underlying worldview of Islam.’



Chittick draws upon the writings of towering figures such as Ibn al-‘Arabī, Rūmī, and Mullā Ṣadrā, as well as other important, but lesser-known thinkers, as he engages with a wide variety of topics, such as the nature of being and knowledge, the relationship between love and scriptural hermeneutics, the practical and theoretical dimensions of Islamic mysticism, the phenomenon of religious diversity, and the ecological crisis.

İçerik tablosu

A Note on Transliteration and Style



Editors’ Introduction




Part I. Sufism and the Islamic Tradition



1. Islam in Three Dimensions



2. The Bodily Gestures of the
Şalāt



3. Weeping in Islam and the Sufi Tradition



4. A Shādhilī Presence in Shi‘ite Islam



5. The Pluralistic Vision of Persian Sufi Poetry



6. The Real Shams-i Tabrīzī



7. The Koran as the Lover’s Mirror




Part II. Ibn al-‘Arabī and His Influence



8. A History of the Term
Wa
hdat
al-Wujūd

9. The Question of Ibn al-‘Arabī’s “Influence” on Rūmī



10. Ibn al-‘Arabī on the Benefit of Knowledge



11. Qūnawī, Neoplatonism, and the Circle of Ascent



12. Farghānī on Oneness and Manyness



13. Jāmī on the Perfect Man



14. Two Treatises by Khwāja Khurd



15. A Debate Between the Soul and the Spirit



16. A Sufi Handbook from Bijapur




Part III. Islamic Philosophy



17. Rūmī and the Wooden Leg of Reason



18. Bābā Afdal’s Psychology



19. Mullā Şadrā on Perception



20. Eschatology in Islamic Thought



21. The Circle of Life



22. The Goal of Philosophy




Part IV. Reflections on Contemporary Issues



23. The Metaphysical Roots of War and Peace



24. Harmony with the Cosmos



25. Stray Camels in China



26. In Search of the Lost Heart



Appendix I: Chronological List of Historical Figures Cited



Appendix II: Chapter Sources



Appendix III: Books by William C. Chittick



Notes

Bibliography

Index of Koranic Passages

Index of Hadiths and Sayings

General Index

Yazar hakkında

William C. Chittick is Professor of Religious Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He is the author and translator of numerous books and articles on Islamic thought, Sufism, Shi’ism, and Persian literature. His books include
The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn al-‘Arabī’s Cosmology;
Imaginal Worlds: Ibn al-‘Arabī and the Problem of Religious Diversity;
Faith and Practice of Islam: Three Thirteenth-Century Sufi Texts;
The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-‘Arabī’s Metaphysics of Imagination;
The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rūmī; and
A Shi’ite Anthology, all published by SUNY Press.
Mohammed Rustom is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Carleton University.
Atif Khalil is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Lethbridge. Kazuyo Murata is a doctoral candidate in Islamic Studies at Yale University.