Omid Safi
American academic
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Religious Studies
Omid Safi's Degrees
- PhD Islamic Studies Duke University
- Masters Islamic Studies Duke University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Omid Safi is a Shia, Iranian-American Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University. He served as the Director of Duke Islamic Studies Center from July 2014 to June 2019 and was a columnist for On Being. Safi specializes in Islamic mysticism , contemporary Islamic thought and medieval Islamic history. He has served on the board of the Pluralism project at Harvard University and served as the co-chair of the steering committee for the Study of Islam and the Islamic Mysticism Group at the American Academy of Religion. Before joining Duke University, Safi was a professor at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Prior to joining the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he was on faculty at Colgate University as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion from 1999 - 2004.
Omid Safi's Published Works
Published Works
- Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender and Pluralism (2003) (190)
- The Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam: Negotiating Ideology and Religious Inquiry (2006) (52)
- Bargaining with Baraka: Persian Sufism, “Mysticism,” and Pre‐modern Politics (2000) (21)
- What is Progressive Islam (2003) (15)
- The Cambridge Companion to American Islam (2013) (10)
- Islamic Education in the United States (2013) (7)
- Learned Ignorance: Intellectual Humility among Jews, Christians and Muslims (2011) (6)
- American Muslims in the Contemporary World:: 1965 to the Present (2013) (5)
- American Islam, Muslim Americans, and the American Experiment (2013) (4)
- Demographics, Political Participation, and Representation (2013) (4)
- Sexual Identity, Marriage, and Family (2013) (2)
- Laying the Groundwork for American Muslim Histories: 1865–1965 (2013) (2)
- Spirituality in the Land of the Noble: How Iran Shaped the World’s Religions , by Richard C. Foltz. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2004. 204 pages, glossary, index, notes. US$16.95 (Paper) ISBN 1-85168-336-4 (2005) (2)
- Religious Pluralism, Secularism, and Interfaith Endeavors (2013) (2)
- American Muslims and the Media (2013) (2)
- Qur’an of Nature: Cosmos as Divine Manifestation in Qur’an and Islamic Spirituality (2012) (1)
- Muslim Public Intellectuals and Global Muslim Thought (2013) (1)
- Muslims in the American Legal System (2013) (1)
- A Muslim Spiritual Progressive Perspective on Palestine/Israel: (with a dash of Obama) (2008) (1)
- Voices of American Muslims : 23 profiles : breaking a long silence since 9/11, 23 American Muslims from all levels of society speak up about Islam, our nation, 9/11, its effects on their lives, and their hopes for the future (2005) (1)
- The Study of American Muslims (2013) (1)
- Tolerance Dedicated to Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rumi [Turkey] 1995 32 min. VHS Dir: Fehme Gerçeker. Prod: Fehme Gerçeker, Aziz Akyavas under UNESCO patronage. Courtesy of Landmark Media, Inc., 3450 Slade Run Drive, Falls Church, VA 22042. Tel: 800-342-2030. Fax: 703-536-9540 (1997) (0)
- Religious Normativity and Praxis among American Muslims (2013) (0)
- Converts and Conversions (2013) (0)
- Who Put Hate in My Sunday Paper (2009) (0)
- Power and the Politics of knowledge : Negotiating Political Ideology and Religious Orthodoxy in Saljūq Iran (2000) (0)
- A Scent from the Garden of Ancients: A Modern Muslim's Musing on the CWS Series (2005) (0)
- Review of Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam by John L. Esposito (2007) (0)
- Ijtihad Epistemologis Muslim Progresif Omid Safi (2018) (0)
- Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World (Book) (2004) (0)
- Between Tradition and Reform (2011) (0)
- Book Review: ‚Umar ibn al-Fāriḍ: Sufi Verse’ Saintly Life (2002) (0)
- ABOUT US NEWS & EVENTS LIBRARY AEMS RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS THE FAIRFAX INSTITUTE “GOD COMMANDS YOU TO JUSTICE AND LOVE” Islamic Spirituality and the Black-led Freedom Movement (2020) (0)
- Transformative Intellectual Discourse and Movement of Ikatan (2018) (0)
- Who Put Hate in My Sunday Paper?: Uncovering the Israeli-Republican-Evangelical Networks behind the “Obsession” DVD (2011) (0)
- Studying American Muslim Women (2013) (0)
- Cultural and Literary Production of Muslim America (2013) (0)
- Book Reviews (2010) (0)
- Note on Transliteration (2013) (0)
- Voices of change (2007) (0)
- GERALD T. ELMORE, Islamic Sainthood in the Fullness of Time: Ibn al-עArabi's Book of the Fabulous Gryphon (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1999). Pp. 775. $229.50 (2002) (0)
- PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, AND SCIENCE: The Encyclopaedia of Islam CD-ROM Edition Vol. 1-9 (A-S) (2004) (0)
- JAWID MOJADDEDI, The Biographical Tradition in Sufism: The Tabaqat Genre from al-Sulami to Jami, Curzon Studies in Asian Religion (Curzon Press, 2001). Pp. 239. $90.00 cloth (2004) (0)
- Islam Under Siege: Living Dangerously in a Post-Honor World (Book) (2004) (0)
- I am a Sufi, I am a Muslim [India, Pakistan, Turkey, Macedonia] 1994 52 min. VHS Dir: Dirk Dumon. Prod: Herman Meyssen for BRTN. Films for the Humanities, PO Box 2053, Princeton, NJ 08543-2053. Tel: 800-257-5126. Fax: 609-275-3767 (1997) (0)
- Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi, by Fatemeh Keshavarz. (Studies in Comparative Religion) 194 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, 1998. $29.95 (Cloth) ISBN 1-57003-180-0 (2001) (0)
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