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Nahid Angha, Ph.D.
Nahid Angha, Ph. D. is the co-director and co-founder of the IAS, founder of the International Sufi Women Organization, the executive editor of Sufism: An Inquiry, the main representative of the IAS to the United Nations (NGO/DPI), an internationally published scholar, she is one of the major Sufi teachers, scholars, and translators of Sufi literature today, with over fifteen published books... She will be offering the opening statement to the Symposium and Festival...
Shah Nazar Seyed Dr. Ali Kianfar
The co-director and co-founder of the International Association of Sufism, and the executive editor of the journal Sufism: An Inquiry. He is a disciple of Moulana Shah Maghsoud, 20th Century Persian Master of the Uwaiysi tariqat. Dr. Kianfar began studying Erfan under the guidance and supervision of his Master of Tariq, Moulana Shah Maghsoud, and was appointed by him to teach and lead gatherings...
Coleman Barks
Coleman Barks was born and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and was educated at the University of North Carolina and the University of California at Berkeley. He taught poetry and creative writing at the University of Georgia for thirty years. He is the author of numerous Rumi translations and has been a student of Sufism since 1977. His work with Rumi was the subject of an hour-long segment in Bill Moyers' Language of Life series on PBS...
Sonia Leon Gilbert
For thirty-nine years, Sonia Leon Gilbert has been a president of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship and Mosque with fourteen branches in the USA, Canada, England and Sri Lanka. In that time, the study of the Sufi Way, as exemplified by her exalted teacher, M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (ral.) has been her focus and her work...
Albert Flynn DeSilver
Albert Flynn DeSilver is a poet, author, artist, publisher, and writing coach. He served as Marin County's very first poet laureate from 2008-2010. Albert has published several books and hundreds of individual poems in literary journals worldwide...
Dr. Shahid Athar
He is an Endocrinologist in private practice in Indianapolis, on staff at St.Vincent Hospital. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Endocrinology. He is an author of 7 books (including Islamic Perspectives in Medicine, Health Concerns for Believers and Healing the Wounds of 9/11) and many published articles on medical and Islamic topics...
Reverend Canon Charles P. Gibbs
A lover of the Mystery, Charles Gibbs has sought to be of service all his life. Since 1996, he has served as the founding Executive Director of the United Religions Initiative, promoting interfaith cooperation for peace, justice and healing in 78 countries. An Episcopal priest, a visionary and a poet,Charles is blessed by his friends and colleagues of diverse faiths...
Pir Shabda Kahn
Pir Shabda Kahn began his root training in 1969 under the guidance of the great American Sufi Master, Murshid Samuel Lewis. Since 2001, Shabda serves as the Pir (lineage holder) of the Sufi Ruhaniat International, the Sufi lineage tracing back though Murshid Samuel Lewis and Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan. In 1972 Shabda met his second great teacher, the late Master Singer, Pandit Pran Nath, and began the daily practice of North Indian classical music in the Kirana style...
Tamam Kahn
Tamam Kahn is a senior teacher in The Sufi Ruhaniat International. She has spoken about Sufism at conferences, has conducted poetry workshops, and has presented her own poetry and stories of the early women of Islam at conferences and Sufi gatherings for two decades. In 2009 she was invited to recite her poetry at an international Sufi conference: The Sidi Chiker World Meetings of Tassawuf Affiliates in Marrakech, Morocco...
Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Born in 1940 in Oakland, California, Moore's first book of poems, Dawn Visions, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books, San Francisco, in 1964. He became a Sufi/Muslim with the Shadhiliyya Habibiyya Tariqat in Meknes, Morocco in 1970, performed the Hajj in 1972, and has lived in Morocco, Spain, Algeria and Nigeria...
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Ph.D.
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Ph.D. is a Sufi Teacher in the Naqshbandiyya-Mujadidiyya Sufi Order. Born in London in 1953, he has followed the Naqshbandi Sufi path since he was 19. In 1991 he moved to Northern California and became the successor of Irina Tweedie, author of Daughter of Fire. He has specialized in the area of dreamwork, integrating the ancient Sufi approach to dreams with the insights of modern psychology.
Riffat Sultana
Riffat Sultana is the first woman from her family's musical lineage to publicly perform in the west, and performs a wide variety of traditional and modern materials from Pakistan and India, including Sufi, Geet, Ghazal, Filmi, Qawwali, and Light Classical. Highlighting her performances are her devotional, and ecstaticPakistani Sufi songs to great saints like Shahabaz Qalander and Baba BuleShah.
Musa Muhaiyaddeen (E. L. Levin)
Musa Muhaiyaddeen (E. L. Levin) is a direct disciple of the Sufi mystic and teacher Bawa Muhaiyaddeen. He met Bawa Muhaiyaddeen in 1972 and studied with him until Bawa Muhaiyaddeen left his earthly form in 1986. He now shares what he learned during the 14 years he spent at the feet of his venerable teacher. He has traveled to Africa, Europe, Asia and throughout North America speaking on the teachings of Sufism...
Renee Owen
The Japanese genres of haiku, haibun, rengay and haiga inspire Renée's poems and wabi sabi art. Widely published internationally, her award-winning poetry is featured in A New Resonance 7: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku and the handsewn art book, Blossoms...
John Fox
John Fox is a poet and certified poetry therapist. He is s the author of Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-making and Finding What You Didn't Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity Through Poem-Making and numerous essays. His work is featured in the PBS documentary, Healing Words: Poetry and Medicine...
Sharon Mijares, Ph.D.
Sharon Mijares, Ph. D. is a licensed Psychologist and professor at Brandman University, National University and the California Institute for Human Science. She is a member of the Sufi Ruhaniat International, a mentor teacher of the International Network of the Dances of Universal Peace and a Sufi Cheraga—Minister of Universal Worship...
Prof. (Murshida) Stephanie Nuria Sabato
Nuria has been a Sufi initiate for nearly three decades, and has dedicated herself to a Path of inner study and outward service to the Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan. She holds a seat on the Pir-o-Murshid Council of the International Sufi Movement. Nuria was a Fulbright Scholar appointed to Morocco. She will present visually stunning mini-movies set to Moroccan music...
Nick Yiangou
Nick Yiangou is a director of the United States branch of the Ibn Arabi Society, which promotes the teachings and translations of this great spiritual teacher. He is an ongoing student of the Beshara School of Intensive Esoteric Education in Scotland, which is based on the principles and teachings of the way of oneness and unification, and previously served on the board of the Beshara Foundation in the US. Topic: "The Ruins of Love: Ibn Arabi's Poetics of Perplexity"...
Nevit Ergin, MD
Nevit Ergin, MD: Some of us are born restless, misfits. Often not satisfied by the comfort of religion, science and philosophy, he lives the life as a homeless home cat. I am one of those restless ones, a misfit who became prey to Mevlana fifty years ago. I found this world in 1928. I have been trying to get rid of it since then, before it gets rid of me...
Abdullahi El-Okene
Abdullahi El-Okene is currently Professor of Agriculture Engineering and heads the Agricultural Mechanization Research Programme. Abdullahi is a student of Shaikh Ahmad Tijani, Shaikh Ibrahim Nyass is his Role Model. He studied, travelled widely with Shaikh Tahir Bauchi of Nigeria and Imam Hassan Cisse of Senegal...
David Katz, MD
He completed his medical degree and Residency in Family Practice at the University of Rochester, a time during which he met his teacher and Sheikh M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen. Dr. Katz and his wife Anne studied Wisdom and the Qualities of God at the feet of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen from 1976 until his passing in 1986. He states, "these Qualities continue to guide me in the care of my patients from day to day." Dr. Katz is the current president of the California Branch of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship...
Sheikha Azima Lila Forest
Sheikha Azima Lila Forest is a guide for mureeds, healing conductor, Siraj (senior minister), Dance Leader Mentor, retreat guide, and SoulWork practitioner with the Sufi Ruhaniat International. She is also a Unitarian Universalist minister. She is a practitioner of Reiki healing and works with dreams with individuals and groups for healing, guidance, and spiritual growth...
Shahjada Syed Saifuddin Ahmed Al-Hasani Wal Hossaini Maizbhandari (MJA)
Shaikhul Islam Baba Syed Mainuddin Ahmed Al-Hasani Wal Hossaini (R) has been preaching the religion of Islam and enhancing the Tarikah-E- Maizbhandaria with utmost efforts both at home and abroad, and has made his legitimate successor Shahjada Syed Saifuddin Ahmed Al-Hasani wal Husaini Maizbhandari (M.J.A.). The latter founded the `Mainia Foundation,' headquartered in Bangladesh. It’s a non political but a socio-religious organization...
Shams Kairys
Shams Kairys received Sufi training from Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan. He has helped develop innovative social and environmental projects, is helping raise his beloved son, works as a writing consultant, and is general editor for Seven Pillars House of Wisdom, founded by Pir Zia Inayat-Khan. On occasions, and those with Coleman Barks are among his favorites, he plays his violin.
Ernesto Olmos
Ernesto Olmos has developed a wide range of programs, curriculum, presentations, art exhibits and musical performance based in traditions of Native Mexico. He travels to support sacred ceremonies and cultural exchanges throughout the Americas. Ernesto combines ancient forms of art that have been passed down through oral and ceremonial traditions...
Ya Elah
Ya Elah is an exciting new spiritual music ensemble based in the Jewish tradition. Ya Elah’s music endeavors to inspire compassion and unity between diverse faiths and cultures through its settings of sacred texts and poetry...
Kervan Ensemble
Kervan Ensemble is a Bay Area ensemble that performs traditional Turkish music ranging from soulful Sufi suites and Ottoman classical pieces to lively dance and folk songs...
Taneen Sufi Music
Formed in 1996 under the guidance of Sufi Masters Shah Nazar Seyed Ali Kianfar and Dr. Nahid Angha, Taneen’s music springs from the heart of prayer, inner practice, and spiritual discipline...
Albert Tenaya
Albert Tenaya is one of the few descendants of Yosemite Valley's Chief Tenaya, and now he performs from Arizona to Idaho at various American Indian events, celebrations, powwows and gatherings. Albert is a Northern Style Traditional Dancer...
Brian Foster
Brian Foster, a singer-songwriter, plays guitar, mandolin, harmonica and shakuhachi flute. Playing musical instruments since he was 12 years old, he began writing songs in his 20's. He has performed in many musical groups from folk rock to blues, and reggae to bluegrass...
Hamaseh Kianfar, Ed.D.
Hamaseh Kianfar, Ed. D., currently works as the Director of Senior Services at Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center. Prior to this position, she had been working as a medical case manager for HIV positive women and children. Her passion for the area of HIV/AIDS let her to complete a doctoral dissertation that focused on the role that forgiveness and imagination play in allowing HIV positive women to move forward in their lives in a hopeful and meaningful way. She is a lifelong member of the International Association of Sufism...
Heidi Gilpin, Ph.D.
Heidi Gilpin, Ph.D., is Chair of European Studies and an Associate Professor at Amherst College. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University. Her book Architectures of Disappearance: Movement in Performance, New Media, and Architecture is forthcoming from The MIT Press...
Leili First, Ph.D. Cand.
Leili First, Ph.D. Cand., is a student of Uwaisyi Sufism, and a long-time member of the IAS and SWO. She has given lectures on Sufism at colleges and universities and presented at the Annual Sufism Symposium and Parliament of the World's Religions. Leili is a member of the program committee of the Building Bridges of Understanding series...
Jamal Lawrence Granick, Ph.D., LMFT
Jamal Lawrence Granick, Ph.D., LMFT is a licensed psychotherapist in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in Transpersonal Psychology at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. He is a student of Uwaiysi Sufism under the guidance of the Sufi Masters Seyyedeh Nahid Angha, Ph.D. and Shah Nazar Ali Ali Kianfar, Ph.D...
Arife Ellen Hammerle, JD, Ph.D., LMFT
Arife Ellen Hammerle, JD, Ph.D., LMFT, is a student of the Uwaiysi School of Sufism, as guided by Sufi Teachers Dr. Nahid Angha and Shah Nazar Seyyed Dr. Ali. Kianfar. Dr. Hammerle is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT #32398) who holds a doctorate in clinical psychology and is a psychotherapist with the Community Healing Centers, an integrative psychotherapy non-profit organization. She is a member of the International Association of Sufism and Sufi Women Organization...
Emily Hedges, M.Ed.
Emily Hedges, M.Ed, is a student of Uwaiysi Sufism under the guidance of Sufi Masters Dr. Nahid Angha and Shah Nazar Seyyed Dr. Ali Kianfar. She is a member of the International Association, Sufi Women Organization, and Voices for Justice Program. She works as an Educational Therapist...
Safa Ali Michael Newman
Safa Ali Michael Newman is President of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Sufism and Chairperson of IAS’ Executive Committee of the Institute for Sufi Studies. He leads a bi-weekly gathering of Sufis in Marin County, California. He has given lectures on Sufism, Islam, and interfaith issues both locally and nationally including at the Association of Humanistic Psychology Conference. He has authored a book on Uwaiysi Sufism and Islam entitled -The Gift of the Robe-...
Glenn Pascall
Glenn Pascall has held numerous positions as a public official, university teacher, writer and journalist in California and Washington State. He has been a student of Dr. Kianfar and Dr. Angha since the year 2000. Pascall was moderator for the “Mysticism in the Modern World” series in Seattle and has moderated panels at numerous Sufism Symposiums. He was co-compiler of “Seasons of the Soul,” a book of daily readings based on Dr. Kianfar’s teachings...
Amineh Amelia Pryor, Ph.D., LMFT
Amineh Amelia Pryor, Ph.D., LMFT is a student of Uwaiysi Sufism under the guidance of Dr. Nahid Angha and Shah Nazar Seyyed Dr. Ali Kianfar. She is a clinical supervisor and psychotherapist at the Community Healing Centers in San Francisco. She presents at local and international conferences and is a published author who has written in the fields of psychology, consciousness, and science...
Arthur Kane Scott
Arthur Kane Scott: Assistant Professor, History/Social Cultures Studies, Dominican University of California. Professor Scott is Program leader of Cultural Studies and teacher of history for seventeen years at DUOC. Specialty areas include Islam, Native American Studies and World History. He has authored five online courses for University of California, Berkeley Extension, on Islam, US and World History...
Sarah Hastings Mullin Ph.D. (abd)
Sarah Hastings Mullin Ph. D (a.b.d)., a member of the International Association of Sufism, is currently finishing her graduate studies in clinical psychology at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto. She also is a psychological assistant gaining hours towards licensure...
Matthew Davis
Matthew Davis creates lessons about the inner journey of living in the natural world. His home as a child moved around the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf with his parents who were teachers. He has spent the last twelve years writing, and teaching composition, literature and critical (creative) thinking at many levels, from colleges, to juvenile detention centers and corporations...
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