

Sufi Heart with Omid Safi
Be Here Now Network
The Sufi Heart podcast with Omid Safi features teachings and stories about a sacred tradition of love, one that manifests outwardly as justice and inwardly as tenderness. Drawing primarily on the wisdom of the Islamic tradition as well as the legacies of the Civil Rights movements and other wisdom teachings, Omid invites you to a meditation on the transformative power of love and recalling the necessity of linking healing our own hearts with healing the world. Omid Safi is a teacher in the Islamic mystical tradition of Radical Love, and serves as a professor of Islamic studies at Duke University. Omid’s passion for teaching has been recognized by his ten nominations for Professor of the Year awards.Omid has published extensively on the foundational sources of Islam and Sufism. His Memories of Muhammad is an award-winning biography of the Prophet Muhammad. His most recent book is Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition. He teaches online courses through Illuminated Courses on topics ranging from Rumi to the mystical dimension of the Qur’an. Lastly, he offers for the general public Illuminated Tours , spiritually oriented contemplative journeys and retreats which have brought more than 2,500 friends from over twenty countries to Turkey, Morocco, Andalusia, and now Umrah since 2002.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Sufi Heart with Omid Safi podcast:

#1 Mentioned in 8 episodes
Radical Love

#2 Mentioned in 3 episodes
The Masnavi

#3 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The conference of the birds

#4 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Prophet

#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Sabbath

#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Francis and the Sultan of Egypt
Eager to Love: The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi

#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Broken Open
How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Go-Giver
A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea

#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Masnavi
Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi (The Spiritual Couplets)
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
In Just One Afternoon, Listening to the Hearts of Men

#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Progressive Islam
On Justice, Gender, and Pluralism (Islam in the Twenty-First Century)

#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Ihya Uloom al-Din

#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Muhammad

#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
إحياء علوم الدين
The Vitalization of the religious sciences

#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Martin Luther King, the inconvenient hero
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Fusus al-Hikam
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Memories of Muhammad

#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Gospel According to Saint Mark

#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Quran
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