THIS IS FROM A RECORDING MADE AT A PUBLIC LECTURE GIVEN BY WILLIAM CHITTICK AT CARLETON UNIVERSITY.[1]
Several years ago William Chittick gave a lecture at our local university on Ahmad Sam’ani’s view of Adam’s fall as elaborated in Sam’ani’s work, “The Ease of Spirits in Explaining the Names of the All-Conquering King” (“Rawh al-arwah fi sharh asma’ al-malik al-fattah”).