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

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🗓️ 19 February 2015

⏱️ 16 minutes

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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...

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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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