In Search of the Lost Heart : Explorations in Islamic Thought

Renowned scholar William C. Chittick explores the worldview of Islam in a series of essays written over thirty-six years.

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 throught, Sufism, Shiism, and Persian literature. His books include The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn al-Arabis Cosmology; Imagined Worlds: Ibn al-Arab"i and the Problem of Religious Diversity; Faith and Practice of Islam: Three Thirteenth-Century Sufi Texts; The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-Araln's Metaphysics of Imagination; The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, and A Shiite 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.