Scholars and teachers

University Professor Emeritus at GW; his listed expertise is "Islamic Studies and Perennial Philosophy". source

University Professor Emeritus (Islamic Studies), The George Washington University

The Nasr Foundation biography says he was 'recognized in American academic circles as a traditionalist' and an expositor of the perennialist perspective; his GW page lists his expertise as 'Islamic Studies and Perennial Philosophy'.

Faculty page ↗Website (Nasr Foundation) ↗Tokat Institute instructor page ↗

• The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary (general editor) (HarperOne, 2015)

• edited The Quran: General editor of The Study Quran (HarperOne 2015), with Caner Dagli, Maria Dakake, Joseph Lumbard and Mohammed Rustom source

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Research "focuses on pre-modern Islamic intellectual history and its relevance for contemporary humanistic concerns." source

SUNY Distinguished Professor and Director, Program in Asian Thought, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, Stony Brook University

Faculty page ↗Books (SUNY Press) ↗Renovatio author page ↗

• The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-ʿArabi's Metaphysics of Imagination (SUNY Press, 1989)
• The Meccan Revelations, Volume I (co-translator, with James W. Morris; ed. Michel Chodkiewicz) (Pir Press)
• The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi: Islamic Thought in Confucian Terms (with Sachiko Murata and Tu Weiming) (Harvard University Asia Center, 2009)

• translated The Meccan Openings: The Sufi Path of Knowledge (SUNY 1989) translates more than 600 passages from al-Futūḥāt al-makkiyya; also co-translator of The Meccan Revelations vol. I (Pir Press) source
• translated Nature and Principle in Islam: Translated with Sachiko Murata and Tu Weiming in The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi (2009) source
• translated Flashes of Light: New translation of Jāmī's Lawāʾiḥ from the Persian, in Murata's Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light (SUNY 2000) source

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Has taught religious studies at Stony Brook since 1983; her books translate Chinese Islamic texts by Wang Daiyu and Liu Zhi. source

Professor, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, Stony Brook University

Faculty page ↗Books (SUNY Press) ↗

• Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light: Wang Tai-yü's Great Learning of the Pure and Real and Liu Chih's Displaying the Concealment of the Real Realm (SUNY Press, 2000)
• The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi: Islamic Thought in Confucian Terms (with William C. Chittick and Tu Weiming) (Harvard University Asia Center, 2009)
• The First Islamic Classic in Chinese: Wang Daiyu's Real Commentary on the True Teaching (SUNY Press, 2017)
• The Tao of Islam: A Sourcebook on Gender Relationships in Islamic Thought (SUNY Press, 1992)

• translated Nature and Principle in Islam: Translated with William Chittick and Tu Weiming in The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi (2009) source
• translated The Great Learning of the Pure and Real: Full translation of Wang Daiyu's Great Learning of the Pure and Real in Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light (2000) source
• translated Flashes of Light: Translated Liu Zhi's Chinese version of Jāmī's Lawāʾiḥ in Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light (2000) source

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A philosopher whose work brings Islamic philosophy, Sufism, environmental humanities and contemporary philosophy into dialogue. source

Taft Distinguished Professor (2026–31), Associate Professor of Islamic Philosophy and Environmental Studies, University of Cincinnati

Faculty page (UC Research Directory) ↗Taft Research Center profile ↗

• Sculpting the Self: Islam, Selfhood, and Human Flourishing (University of Michigan Press, 2021)
• From the Divine to the Human: Contemporary Islamic Thinkers on Evil, Suffering, and the Global Pandemic (co-ed. with Mohammed Rustom) (Routledge, 2023)

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His work "contributes to the fields of Islamic philosophical theology, Sufism, and Quranic studies." source

Associate Professor of Quranic Studies, College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (Doha)

Faculty page ↗

• The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary (author, translator and general editor) (HarperOne, 2015)

• translated The Quran: Author, translator and general editor of The Study Quran (2015) source

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Works on "Islamic philosophy, Sufism, Quranic exegesis, and cross-cultural philosophy." source

Professor of Islamic Thought and Global Philosophy and Director, Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam, Carleton University

Faculty page ↗Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam ↗Books (NYU Press) ↗

• Inrushes of the Heart: The Sufi Philosophy of ʿAyn al-Quḍāt (SUNY Press, 2023)
• The Essence of Reality: A Defense of Philosophical Sufism (ʿAyn al-Quḍāt, ed. and trans.) (NYU Press)
• The Triumph of Mercy: Philosophy and Scripture in Mullā Ṣadrā (2012)

• edited The Quran: Co-editor of The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary (2015) source

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Research on "Classical Sufism, Islamic Philosophy, Arabic and Persian Sufi Literature, and Ethics in Literature and Film." source

Al-Ghazali Distinguished Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of Philosophy, University of Central Florida

Faculty page ↗Books (SUNY Press) ↗

• Sufi Aesthetics: Beauty, Love, and the Human Form in the Writings of Ibn ʿArabi and ʿIraqi (University of South Carolina Press)
• The Polished Mirror: Storytelling and the Pursuit of Virtue in Islamic Philosophy and Sufism (Oneworld)
• Religion of Love: Sufism and Self-Transformation in the Poetic Imagination of ʿAṭṭār (SUNY Press, 2024)

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Examines "the philosophical and artistic dimensions" of Islamic and indigenous religious traditions of West and North Africa, "especially Sufism and Ifa." source

Associate Professor of African Religious Thought and Democracy, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia

Faculty page ↗

• Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions (Penn State University Press, 2020)
• Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection: West African Madīḥ Poetry and its Precedents (Islamic Texts Society, 2020)

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Senior Consultant Scholar at Kalam Research & Media; doctorate (University of Chicago, 1978) on Islamic law. source

Senior Consultant Scholar, Kalam Research & Media

Our rough classification: Kalam Research & Media lists him as its Senior Consultant Scholar and notes his work with the Nawawi Foundation (Chicago); he also holds a 1978 University of Chicago doctorate and taught at King Abdul-Aziz University, Jeddah (1984–2000). 'academic' would also be defensible.

Kalam Research & Media profile ↗

• A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexander Russell Webb (Oxford University Press, 2006)

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Scholar of Sufism and Ibn ʿArabī's teaching; directed studies at the EHESS, where he held seminars on Ibn ʿArabī. source

Directeur d'études, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris); Director General then President of Éditions du Seuil, 1977–1989

Obituary (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society) ↗Books (Pir Press) ↗

• The Seal of the Saints: Prophethood and Sainthood in the Doctrine of Ibn ʿArabi (English translation) (1986)
• The Meccan Revelations, Volume I (editor; trans. W. C. Chittick and J. W. Morris) (Pir Press)
• An Ocean Without Shore: Ibn ʿArabi, the Book, and the Law (English translation) (1992)

• edited The Meccan Openings: Editor of The Meccan Revelations (selected chapters of al-Futūḥāt al-makkiyya), translated by Chittick and Morris source

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Professor of Islamic Studies at Boston College; works on Islamic humanities, philosophy, Sufism, Shiite thought and the Qurʾān. source

Professor of Islamic Studies, Theology Department, Boston College

Faculty expert page ↗Books (Fons Vitae) ↗Books (Pir Press) ↗

• The Reflective Heart: Discovering Spiritual Intelligence in Ibn ʿArabī's Meccan Illuminations (Fons Vitae, 2005)
• The Meccan Revelations, Volume I (co-translator, with W. C. Chittick; ed. M. Chodkiewicz) (Pir Press)

• translated The Meccan Openings: Co-translator of The Meccan Revelations vol. I; author of The Reflective Heart (2005), a study of the Futūḥāt source

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Works on "the philosophy of Late Antiquity and the Arabic tradition"; host of the History of Philosophy without any gaps podcast. source

Chair of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy, LMU Munich

Faculty page ↗Podcast (History of Philosophy without any gaps) ↗

• The Arabic Plotinus: A Philosophical Study of the 'Theology of Aristotle' (Duckworth, 2002)
• Philosophy in the Islamic World: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2015)
• Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2023)

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Studies classical Arabic and the pre-modern intellectual tradition in Islamic civilization, especially Greek philosophical texts translated in 8th–10th-century Baghdad. source

Professor Emeritus of Arabic and Graeco-Arabic, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University

Faculty page ↗

• Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition: Introduction to Reading Avicenna's Philosophical Works (Leiden (rev. 2nd ed. 2013), 1988)
• Greek Thought, Arabic Culture (1998)

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Scholar of Persian literature and Sufism; Senior Lecturer in Persian and Sufi Literature at Exeter. source

Senior Lecturer in Persian and Sufi Literature, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter

Obituary (British Institute of Persian Studies) ↗Books (IIS) ↗

• Beyond Faith and Infidelity: The Sufi Poetry and Teachings of Mahmud Shabistari (1995)
• Attar and the Persian Sufi Tradition: The Art of Spiritual Flight (ed. with Christopher Shackle) (I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2006)

• studied The Rose-Garden of Mystery: Beyond Faith and Infidelity (1995), a study of Shabistarī's Sufi poetry and teachings source
• studied The Conference of the Birds: Co-edited Attar and the Persian Sufi Tradition (2006), which addresses ʿAṭṭār's Manṭiq al-ṭayr source

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Scholar of Islam who inaugurated Harvard's Indo-Muslim studies program; Professor of Indo-Muslim Culture Emerita. source

Professor of Indo-Muslim Culture Emerita, Harvard University (joined 1967, retired 1992)

Obituary (Harvard Gazette) ↗

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"An historian of ideas" who has published on Fatimid history and Ismaili thought in its formative period. source

Affiliated with the University of Chicago (per IIS author note)

Several of his al-Sijistānī books are published by I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies.

Books (IIS) ↗

• Abu Yaʿqub al-Sijistani: Intellectual Missionary (I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 1998)

• studied The Keys of the Kingdom: His studies of al-Sijistānī's thought as a whole (Abu Yaʿqub al-Sijistani: Intellectual Missionary, 1998) bear on the Keys; the publisher's page does not name the Maqālīd itself. source

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Scholar of Persian and Arabic literatures (PhD Columbia) who writes on Nāṣir-i Khusraw and lectures on Islam and Sufism. source

Lecturer on Islam and Sufism, City University of New York, Hunter College (as stated on IIS page for Pearls of Persia, 2012; may be dated)

Former Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Ismaili Studies; her Nāṣir-i Khusraw books are IIS publications.

Books (IIS) ↗IIS article ↗

• Nasir Khusraw, the Ruby of Badakhshan: A Portrait of the Persian Poet, Traveller and Philosopher (I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2002)
• Pearls of Persia: The Philosophical Poetry of Nāṣir-i Khusraw (editor) (I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2012)

• studied The Dīvān: odes: Edited Pearls of Persia (2012), on Nāṣir-i Khusraw's philosophical poetry; the IIS page also says she is working on an English translation of his Dīvān source

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Scholar of Arabic literature and Sufi mysticism, especially the poetry of ʿUmar Ibn al-Fāriḍ. source

Professor of Religion, University of Rochester (joined 1988)

Obituary (University of Rochester) ↗Books (SUNY Press) ↗

• The Wine of Love & Life: Ibn al-Fāriḍ's al-Khamrīyah and al-Qayṣarī's Quest for Meaning (2005)
• Passion Before Me, My Fate Behind: Ibn al-Fāriḍ and the Poetry of Recollection (SUNY Press, 2011)
• From Arab Poet to Muslim Saint: Ibn al-Fāriḍ, His Verse, and His Shrine (1994)

• studied The Wine Ode: The Wine of Love & Life (2005), on Ibn al-Fāriḍ's al-Khamriyya and al-Qayṣarī's commentary source

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Studies and teaches "qur'anic studies; Sufism; Arabic and Islamic love poetry; mystical literature (Greek, Islamic, Christian, and Jewish); and religion and violence." source

John Henry Barrows Professor Emeritus of Islamic History and Literature, University of Chicago Divinity School (also Comparative Literature and the College)

Faculty page ↗Website (publications) ↗Books (White Cloud Press) ↗

• Stations of Desire: Love Elegies from Ibn ʿArabi and New Poems (Ibis Editions (Jerusalem), 2000)
• Approaching the Qur'an: The Early Revelations (White Cloud Press, 1999)
• Mystical Languages of Unsaying (University of Chicago Press, 1994)

• translated The Interpreter of Desires: Stations of Desire (2000): translations of love qasidas from Ibn ʿArabī's Interpreter of Desires (Tarjumān al-ashwāq) source

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Philosopher at Vanderbilt; translated Ibn Ṭufayl's Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān with introduction, notes and commentary. source

Professor of Philosophy, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, and Professor of Jewish Studies, Vanderbilt University

Faculty listing ↗Books (University of Chicago Press) ↗

• Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale (translator; updated edition) (University of Chicago Press, 2009)

• translated The Tale of Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān: Translated with introduction and notes; University of Chicago Press updated edition 2009 source

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General Editor of the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity series (OUP with the IIS); holds a senior executive and academic leadership role at the IIS. source

Senior Executive Officer, The Institute of Ismaili Studies (London)

IIS profile ↗Books (IIS) ↗

• On Arithmetic & Geometry: An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistles 1–2 (Oxford University Press in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2013)

• edited Epistles of the Brethren of Purity: General Editor of the OUP/IIS Epistles of the Brethren of Purity series; edited and translated Epistles 1–2 (2013) source

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Researches the philosophical and mystical dimensions of Persian poetry, with interests in the metaphysics of Ibn ʿArabī, Plotinus and Mullā Ṣadrā; has written a series of articles on Shabistarī's Gulshan-i rāz. source

Doctoral researcher in Philosophy and Religious Sciences, Istanbul University

Academia.edu ↗Google Scholar ↗PhilPeople ↗

• studied The Rose-Garden of Mystery: Articles (2023–24) on thinking (tafakkur), the self, otherness and pilgrimage in the Gulshan-i rāz source

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