William Chittick

William C. Chittick is a renowned Islamologist.

Born in Connecticut, he completed a Ph.D. in Persian literature at Tehran University in 1974. He then taught comparative religion in the humanities department at Tehran's Aryamehr Technical University and left Iran just before the revolution in 1979.

He has also served as assistant editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica, and is currently professor of religious studies at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Professor Chittick is author and translator of twenty books and over one hundred articles on Islamic thought, Sufism, and Shi'ism.

He has had collaborations with Sayyed Hosein Nasr, and Allameh Tabatabaei on several important projects.

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