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 thought, Sufism, Shi'ism, and Persian literature. His books include
The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn al-'Arabī's Cosmology;
Imaginal Worlds: Ibn al-'Arabī and the Problem of Religious Diversity;
Faith and Practice of Islam: Three Thirteenth-Century Sufi Texts;
The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-'Arabī's Metaphysics of Imagination;
The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rūmī; and
A Shi'ite 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.
