Gary Null's Conversations With The Worlds Most Remarkable Minds
Episodes
Monday Feb 26, 2018
Monday Feb 26, 2018
A discssion of US support of the Shah and other dictators and despots who go along with the Washington agenda; views on the film “Innocence of Muslims” that ignited riots; middle east foreign policy.
Prof. Omid Safi has rapidly become one of the most important, postmodern Islamic thinkers in America today. From Iranian heritage, he is Professor of Islamic Studies at the Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, specializing in Islamic social and intellectual history, and Sufi mysticism. Prof. Safi received his doctorate from Duke Univ., he is the Chair for the Study of Islam at the American Academy of Religion, a member of the advisory board of the Pluralism Project at Harvard, and an original co-founder of the Progressive Muslim Union. He is the author of several books including “Memories of Mohammad: Why the Prophet Matters” and co-editor of the volume “Learned Ignorance: Intellectual Humility among Jews, Christians and Muslims” www.OmidSafi.com
