The Path of Muhammadan Love
The Path of Muhammadan Love
A working command of the vocabulary of Islamic metaphysics — wujūd, māhiyya, the gradation of being — used precisely, not loosely.
The capacity to read primary texts of Ibn Sīnā and Mullā Ṣadrā with comprehension rather than reverence alone.
An understanding of why the tradition treats metaphysics as the science of realities — and what that claim asks of the knower.
Direct exchange with Professor Nasr in open Q&A after every session — the part no book can replace.
William C. Chittick is widely regarded as the English-speaking world’s foremost translator and interpreter of classical Islamic texts in the fields of Sufism and Ibn ʿArabī Studies. For more than five decades, his scholarship has introduced generations of students and scholars to the intellectual and spiritual traditions of Islam through authoritative translations and groundbreaking studies of figures such as Ibn ʿArabī, Rumi, Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī, and Afḍal al-Dīn Kāshānī. At Tokat, he teaches Sufism and Islamic philosophy as living traditions of wisdom, guiding students through the writings of Islam’s greatest sages.
