Speakers

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  Nizam un Nisa Husain
  

  Nizam un Nisa Husain

  Nizam un Nisa Husain is a Murshida, Cheraga, Guide, Representative and Facilitator of the Anjumani-Islam group in the Inayatiyya. She is also the National Representative of Inayatiyya Canada. A student of classical Chishti Sufism since 1988 and a devoted follower of the Inayatiyya since 2004, she has led Inayatiyya centers in Lahore, in Dubai and now in Oakville, Ontario where she lives. A journalist and editor by profession with an MA in Journalism/Near Eastern Studies from NYU, Nizam un Nisa is a graduate of the first European Suluk class and has mentored several Suluk classes including the first graduate Suluk. She has led Sufi retreats, taught Sufi meditation to Buddhist monks in Tokyo and been invited to the UN as part of an international delegation of spiritual leaders.

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  Omid Safi
  

  Omid Safi

  Omid Safi is a teacher in the Sufi tradition of radical love and founder of Illuminated Courses & Tours. His online, video-based courses range from Sufi approaches to the Qur’an to Rumi. 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 Jr., Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Malcolm X.