The Anthropology of Compassion in Ibn 'Arabi's Futuhat




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Summary: William C. Chittick, PhD, Professor of Religious Studies in the Asian and Asian American Studies Dept. at Stony Brook, has spent forty years studying Ibn 'Arabi and the pre-modern Muslim intellectual tradition. Among his thirty books, five deal with Ibn Arabi's thought: The Sufi Path of Knowledge, Imaginal Worlds, The Self-Disclosure of God, Ibn Arabi: Heir to the Prophets, and (as co-author) The Meccan Revelations.