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Interfaith Easter: Omid Safi - An Islamic Easter (NS16)

Nomad Podcast

Tim Nash

Christianity, Faithshift, Deconstruction, Christianmysticism, Religion & Spirituality, Christianspirituality, Progressivechristian, Christian, Religion, Emergingchurch

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2015

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Second up in our Interfaith Easter series is Omid Safi. Omid is the Director of the Islamic Studies Centre, at Duke University. So if you're interested in what a Muslim makes of Easter, you've come to the right place, as Omid gives us a fascinating reflection. 

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0:00.0

So, welcome back again to Nomad.

0:18.5

Second part of our Easter slash lent type thing.

0:24.7

And who have we got today, Tim?

0:26.6

We've got Omid Safi.

0:29.2

He is an Iranian-American professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University

0:34.7

in the United States.

0:35.9

He's the director of the Duke Islamic Studies Centre.

0:40.2

He's a columnist for On Being, which is Krista Tippett's podcast.

0:43.6

So he writes her blog.

0:44.6

That's how I came across him.

0:45.7

I read a couple of very interesting pieces and thought, he's the man.

0:49.8

Turns out he was the man.

0:51.2

That's good.

0:52.5

He specialises in Islamic mysticism, contemporary Islamic thought and medieval Islamic history.

1:00.0

Sounds like a very interesting man.

1:02.0

Yeah.

1:03.0

And definitely a person to reflect on Easter from an Islamic perspective.

1:06.0

Yeah, I'm looking forward to this one.

1:08.0

I haven't actually heard it.

1:09.0

This is a fresh delight, isn't it?

1:11.1

Yeah. Yeah. I have listened to it twice in fact.

1:13.8

All right.

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