Dr.William Chittick is a Professor of Comparative Studies at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. A greatly respected scholar, he spent over twelve years in Iran before the revolution studying Sufism in theory and practice, and he has written widely on Shiism.
Dr. Chittick specializes in Islamic intellectual history, especially the philosophical and mystical theology of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as reflected in Arabic and Persian texts. He has also investigated the manner in which texts have been put into practice in the Sufi orders, which have dominated much of popular Islam down to the present. He has published numerous books, among them are:

- Imaginal Worlds: Ibn al-'Arabi and the Problem of Religious Diversity; Faith and Practice of Islam:
- Three Thirteenth Century Sufi Texts

- Sufi Path of Knowledge: IBN Al-Arabi's Metaphysics of Imagination

- Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of IBN Al-'Arabi's Cosmology

- Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi

- Heart of Islamic Philosophy: The Quest for Self-Knowledge in the Teachings of Afdal Al-DIN Kashani

- Sufism: A Short Introduction

- Me and Rumi: The Autobiography of Shams-i Tabrizi

- Adornment of Hearts (introduction by Dr. Chittick)