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William Chittick

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Also known as William C. Chittick, William Clark Chittick

American philosopher, writer and translator

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  • Sufi'nin Ask Yolculugu
  • Faith and Practice of Islam
  • Ibn Arabi (Makers of the Muslim World)
  • A Shi'ite Anthology
  • Sufism

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  1. VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

    · 1996 · cited 63,006x

  2. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

    · 1976 · cited 44,855x

  3. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

    · 1983 · cited 39,582x

  4. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

    · 2010 · cited 30,951x

  5. Preparation of Graphitic Oxide

    · 1958 · cited 28,686x

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Quotes

  • Few concerns are as central to Islam as the search for knowledge (‘ilm). In the Koran God commands the Prophet, by universal Muslim consent the most knowledgeable of all human beings, to pray, “My Lord, increase me in knowledge!” (20:114). Muslims must imitate him in this quest. “Are they equal,” asks the Koran, “those who know and those who know not?” (39:9). The answer is self-evident. Hence, as the Prophet said, “The search for knowledge is incumbent upon every Muslim.”'
  • Every attribute of God is found in the innate disposition (fitra) of the human being. The path to perfection involves bringing these attributes out from hiddenness to manifestation.
  • To lose the ability to see with the eye of tawhid means to fall into seeing with the eye of shirk, or associating other gods with God. If the Qur’an considers unrepented shirk the one unforgivable sin, this is no doubt because it entails an utter distortion of human understanding, a corruption of the human fitra, and an obscuration of the intelligence that is innate to every human being.

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