# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-chittick
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:14:12.097Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-chittick"
name: "William Chittick"
slug: "william-chittick"
description: "William Clark Chittick is an American philosopher, writer, translator, and interpreter of classical Islamic philosophical and mystical texts. He is best known for his work on Rumi and Ibn 'Arabi, and has written extensively on the school of Ibn 'Arabi, Islamic philosophy, and Islamic cosmology. He is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Stony Brook University."
tagline: "American philosopher, writer and translator"
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birthDate: "1943-06-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump