Omid Safi – Sufi Heart Podcast
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.
Most Recent Omid Safi Sufi Hour Podcasts
Sufi Heart with Omid Safi – Ep. 12 – The Conference of the Birds
In this episode of the Sufi Heart Podcast, Omid shares the celebrated literary masterpiece “The Conference of the Birds” from Sufi poet Farid ud-Din…
Sufi Heart with Omid Safi – Ep. 11 – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Message for Today
Omid Safi shares a reflection on what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s message for today’s world might be and examines what love has to…
Sufi Heart with Omid Safi – Ep. 10 – Finding Compassion Amid Chaos
In the wake of the tragic shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, Dr. Omid Safi shares a reflection on responding to chaos with compassion and…
Sufi Heart with Omid Safi – Ep. 9 – Mysticism in the Modern Age
Omid Safi shares a conversation with Kate Green Tripp, from 1440 Multiversity, about engaging in mysticism and the path of love in the 21st…
Sufi Heart with Omid Safi – Ep. 8 – Kharaqani, the Saint Who Breathed with God
On this episode of the Sufi Heart Podcast, Omid explores the life and teachings of the early Sufi mystic Abu al-Hassan al-Kharaqani. The Saint…
Sufi Heart with Omid Safi – Ep. 7 – Rekindling Our Tenderness
Omid is invited by Taniya Hussain from the Beat Burnout Summit to talk about the practices that allow us to rekindle the love and…
Sufi Heart with Omid Safi – Ep. 6 – Practice of Compassion
Leslie Langbert joins Omid for a conversation about opening our heart to radical love with the practice of compassion. A licensed clinical social worker,…
Sufi Heart with Omid Safi – Ep. 5 – A Practice of Love
How can we develop a practice of love that starts with ourselves and extends into the world? This time on the Sufi Heart Podcast,…
Sufi Heart with Omid Safi – Ep. 4 – Welcoming the Tranquil Soul Back to the Divine
This week, Omid looks at how mystics of the Sufi tradition understood the path of love as something that brings us together into fellowship…