Kinship Circle: The Intersection of Love and Justice
w/ Omid Safi
Friday, October 15, 3 – 4:30 pm ET
The Kinship Activity of North America invites you to join us for a special Kinship Circle with Omid Safi examining the intersection of love and justice, a topic of enduring relevance and urgency. Omid will illuminate the teachings of love and justice from the Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions and look at what the Prophets, then and now, say about using love and justice to address the challenges of the day.
This Kinship Circle is open to all who are sincerely interested. Registration is not required. Please see the sidebar for the time in your local area.
If you have questions about the Inayatiyya Kinship Activity and/or about this special Kinship Circle, please email kinship@inayatiyya.org.
Speaker
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Omid SafiOmid Safi is a teacher in the Sufi tradition of Radical Love & Founder of Illuminated Courses & Tours. His online, video-based courses range from Sufi approaches to the Qurâan to Rumi. The Illuminated Tours offer spiritually oriented tours to Turkey and Morocco. He is a professor at Duke University specializing in Islamic spirituality and contemporary thought. 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. Omid is also deeply committed to liberationist prophetic traditions in the legacy of Martin Luther King, Rabbi Heschel, and Malcolm X. He has been invited by the family of Dr. King to speak at Ebenezer Church on the relevance of Dr. King for todayâs America, and has delivered the Martin Luther King keynote in the annual national MLK service.