Omid Safi

Published Articles 

"On the "Path of Love" Towards the Divine: A Journey with Muslim Mystics" in Sufi, Issue 78.

"A Muslim Spiritual Perspective on Palestine Israel" in Tikkun May 2008. 

"I and Thou in a Contested World:  Beyond Islam Vs. The West" , in Voices of Islam:  Voices of Change.  Volume 5, edited by Omid Safi.  (Praeger, 2006). 

"Challenges and Opportunities for the Progressive Muslim in North America", in Muslim Public Affairs Journal (January 2006).

"The Emergence of Progressive Islam in America” in A Nation of Religions: The Politics of Pluralism in Multi-religious America, S. Prothero, ed. (Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 2006).

"Islamic Modernism", in Encyclopedia of Religion, Second Edition.  Editor Lindsay Jones et al.  (Farmington Hills, MI:  MacMillan, 2005).

“A Scent From The Garden of Ancients:  A Modern Muslims’ Musings on the CWS Series” , Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality 5 (2005).

“Al-Hallaj” in Arabic Literary Culture, c. 500-925 volume of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Shawkat Toorawa and Michael Cooperson, eds. (Detroit: Gale, 2005).

“Ja‘far al-Sadiq” in Arabic Literary Culture, c. 500-925 volume of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Shawkat Toorawa and Michael Cooperson, eds.  (Detroit;  Gale, 2005).

“Beyond 9/11: Islam in America” in Voices of American Muslims, L. Cateura, ed. (Hippocrene, 2004).

“American Muslims: Legacies, Realities, and Challenges,” in Voices of American Muslims, L. Catura, ed. (Hippocrene, 2004).

“A Progressive Muslim Critique of the U.S. Occupation of Iraq,” in Twilight of Empire: Responses to Occupation, Mark Levine and Viggo Mortensen, eds. (Perceval Press,   2004), pp. 57-61.

“What is Progressive Islam?,” International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, December 2003, pp. 48-49.

“The Times, They Are A-changin’:  A Muslim Quest for Justice, Gender Equality, and Pluralism”  in Progressive Muslims:  On Justice, Gender, and Pluralism, Omid Safi, ed. (Oxford:  Oneworld Publications, 2003), pp. 1-29.

“Literature—West Asia, Persian,” in Encyclopedia of Modern Asia (New York: Scribner, 2002), 3:519-521.

“On the Path of Love Towards the Divine:  A Journey with Muslim Mystics,” in the online Journal of Scriptural Reasoning, Vol. 3.2 (August 2003)  Journal of Scriptural Reasoning, Vol. 3, No. 2, August 2003.

“State and Society under the Great Saljuqs,” trans. to Turkish, pub. “Buyuk Selcuklularda Devlet-Toplum Iliskisi” in The Great Ottoman-Turkish Civilisation Encyclopedia, Halil Inalcik, ed. (Ankara, 2002), pp. 352-363.

“The Oghuz Tribe and the Rise of the Saljuqs up to 1040,” trans. into Turkish and published as “Oguz Boyu ve 1040 Yilina Kadar Yukselisi” in The Great Ottoman-Turkish Civilisation Encyclopedia [Turkler Ortacag], Halil Inalcik, ed. (Ankara, 2002), pp. 585-594.

“Being Muslim, Being American Through This Absurd ‘War on Terrorism’” in Taking Back Islam, Michael Wolfe, ed. (Rodale Press, 2002), pp. 67-7.

“Reflections on Teaching Islam through and after September 11th,” ARC: The Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University 30 (2002), pp. 211-236.  Reprinted in Underlying Terror, Bryan Rennie and Philip L. Tite, eds. (forthcoming).

“Resources for Teaching Islam,” Religious Studies News 17/2 (March 2002), 12.

“Bargaining with Baraka: Persian Sufism, ‘Mysticism,’ and Politics,” The Muslim World 90/3-4 (2001), pp. 259-288.

“The Sufi Path of Love in Iran and India” in A Pearl in Wine, Zia Inayat Khan, ed. (New Lebanon, NY: Omega Press, 2001), pp. 221-266.

“Did the Two Oceans Meet? Historical Connections and Disconnections between Ibn ‘Arabi and Rumi,” Journal of Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society xxvi (1999), pp. 55-88.

Accepted Articles, In Press

"Who Put Hate in My Sunday Paper? Uncovering the Israeli-Republican-Evangelical Networks behind the “Obsession” DVD", 2008. 

“Ayn al-Qudat Hamadani” in An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, Seyyed Hossein Nasr and  Mehdi Aminrazavi, eds. (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2005).

"Ahmad-i Jam," Encyclopedia of Islam.

"Ayn al-Qudat Hamadani," Encyclopedia of Islam.

"Abu Sa'id-i Abi 'l-Khayr,"  Encyclopedia of Islam.

"Attar" Encyclopedia of Islam. 

  "Women as an Uncreated Ray of Light" , forthcoming from the Conference on Rumi and Women.