Essays, and the sources behind them

Talks and interviews

• Sachiko Murata: International Kenan Rifai Symposium, Session 9 - Sachiko Murata, Prof. &William Chittick, Prof. ↗
  Cemalnur Sargut · talk page
  • 9:34 Chinese Muslim scholars after Wang Daiyu
  • 13:33 Ibn ʿArabī as the most influential author among Confucian Muslims
  • 18:04 How to explain tawḥīd in Chinese

Books

• Sachiko Murata, Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light (SUNY Press, 2000), foreword by Tu Weiming, with Chittick’s translation of Jāmī’s Lawāʾiḥ. The place to start. ↗
• Sachiko Murata, William C. Chittick and Tu Weiming, The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi: Islamic Thought in Confucian Terms (Harvard University Asia Center, 2009). Chapter 1 is the best introduction. ↗
• Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China (Harvard University Asia Center, 2005). ↗
• Jonathan N. Lipman, Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China (University of Washington Press, 1997). ↗
• Najm al-Dīn Rāzī, The Path of God’s Bondsmen from Origin to Return, trans. Hamid Algar (Caravan Books, 1982). ↗

Free online texts

• Jāmī, Lawāʾiḥ (Flashes of Light), with the Persian manuscript in facsimile and Whinfield’s 1906 English ↗
• Liu Zhi, Tianfang xingli, with characters explained ↗
• Wang Daiyu, Qingzhen daxue (The Great Learning of the Pure and Real) ↗

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William C. Chittick Sachiko Murata Tu Weiming Liu Zhi Wang Daiyu Jāmī Ibn ʿArabī Zvi Ben-Dor Benite

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Talks and interviews

• Aḥmad Ḥawīlī, «هو الحب» (music by Ziyād Saḥḥāb): the full concert recording ↗
  Aḥmad Ḥawīlī (YouTube)
  • 1:34 the opening verses as sung in the reel

Text and performance

• Ibn al-Fāriḍ, «هو الحب», Dīwān (Cairo, 1872), p. 108, scan ↗
• Performance: Aḥmad Ḥawīlī, melody by Ziyād Saḥḥāb. The reel is a short cut, so please listen to the full recording at its source. ↗
• The essay that grew from it: Learning a Language Through What You Love

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Ibn al-Fāriḍ

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Talks and interviews

• Aḥmad Ḥawīlī sings Ibn al-Fāriḍ, «هو الحب» (music by Ziyād Saḥḥāb) ↗
  Aḥmad Ḥawīlī (YouTube)

Texts and listening

• Ibn al-Fāriḍ, «هو الحب», Dīwān (Cairo, 1872), p. 108, scan ↗
• Plato, Symposium 210a–211c (Perseus) ↗
• Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ (the Brethren of Purity), Rasāʾil, Epistle 1, ed. al-Ziriklī (Cairo, 1928)
• Read the whole of the poem with the Arabic, the roots of each word and a translation on Mashraba ↗

Research the essay draws on

• R. C. Gardner and W. E. Lambert, “Motivational variables in second-language acquisition,” Canadian Journal of Psychology 13 (1959) ↗
• Z. Dörnyei, “The L2 Motivational Self System” (2009) ↗
• S. Hidi and K. A. Renninger, “The four-phase model of interest development,” Educational Psychologist 41 (2006) ↗
• K. Lichtman and B. VanPatten, “Was Krashen right? Forty years later,” Foreign Language Annals 54 (2021) ↗
• S. Krashen, “The case for narrow reading” (2004), PDF ↗
• A. Yanagisawa, S. Webb and T. Uchihara, “How do different forms of glossing contribute to L2 vocabulary learning from reading?” Studies in Second Language Acquisition 42 (2020)
• B. Laufer and N. Girsai, “Form-focused instruction in second language vocabulary learning,” Applied Linguistics 29 (2008) ↗
• G. Cook, Translation in Language Teaching (Oxford, 2010)
• W. T. Wallace, “Memory for music: effect of melody on recall of text,” JEP: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 20 (1994) ↗
• D. Schön et al., “Songs as an aid for language acquisition,” Cognition 106 (2008)
• K. S. LaBar and R. Cabeza, “Cognitive neuroscience of emotional memory,” Nature Reviews Neuroscience 7 (2006) ↗

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Ibn al-Fāriḍ

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