Sachiko Murata

Sachiko Murata is a professor of religion and Asian studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She received her B.A. from Chiba University in Chiba, Japan, and later attended Iran’s Tehran University where she was the first woman ever to study Islamic jurisprudence, and where she received her Ph.D. in Persian literature. Murata teaches Islam, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. She is the author of several books including The Tao of Islam, Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light, The Vision of Islam (which she co-authored with William Chittick) and Temporary Marriage in Islamic Law. Murata’s article Islamic Learning in Confucian Terms appears in Universal Dimensions of Islam.