Browse films, documentaries, conversations and teachings by path and format. 37 videos.
37 videos
Chelan Harkin reads her poem "The Worst Thing We Ever Did."
Inspiration is Contagious
A recent lecture on what is lost when a civilisation stops treating anything as sacred.
Diyanet Center of America
An hour and a half at Harvard on consciousness as the ground of things rather than a product of them.
Harvard Divinity School
An introduction to dhikr and breath-based practice within the Islamic and Sufi contemplative tradition.
Original source
On why Islamic art is not decoration but an argument about reality.
Brigham Young University Museum of Art
The first episode of Shaykh Burhanuddin Herrmann's teaching series, on self-knowledge as the path to inner freedom.
Shaykh Burhanuddin Herrmann (YouTube)
Part of a nature meditation series; reflection on light and darkness as symbolic and spiritual polarities.
An hour and a half on whether the Islamic path runs through knowing or through loving, and why that is a false choice.
Rumi Center for Spirituality and the Arts
Habib Ali al-Jifri at Yale Divinity School, in a conversation between Muslim and Christian scholars on the two commandments both traditions hold.
Yale Divinity School
Hamza Yusuf reflects on meaning and choice on his podcast.
Hamza Yusuf
An hour-long author event in which he reopens familiar gospel sayings word by word in Aramaic and shows how much the Greek and English renderings narrowed them.
Banyen Books & Sound
A Martin Luther King Day talk connecting Sufi and interfaith perspectives on justice.
Discussion of Rumi's poetry and the relevance of his teaching on love as a unifying force for today's world.
Twenty minutes at TEDxUGA, and the shortest way into his reading voice.
TEDx
A short talk on recognising and working against the ego in daily spiritual practice.
Cambridge Muslim College
A talk on gratitude, published by his own order, the Sufi Ruhaniat International.
Sufi Ruhaniat International
A short answer to a woman's question, and an example of how he handles a personal appeal in public.
Radical Middle Way
A full lecture by Abdal Hakim Murad on how traditional Islamic spirituality can engage with and survive the modern world.
Nearly two hours of reading and talking about how the poems came into English.
University of California Television
Habib Umar bin Hafiz teaches the third lesson in his series on the Prophetic biography, with English translation.
Habib Omar Bin Hafidh
A talk connecting Sufi mysticism to the ecological crisis, from Vaughan-Lee's later archive.
The full session she led at the 2018 Festival of Faiths, a sohbet followed by a dhikr, the remembrance of God with the breath.
Festival of Faiths
A Mevlevi Sufi teaching on the heart as the seat of spiritual awakening.
Sachiko Murata and William Chittick on what Muslim scholars in China made of Sufism, and what Confucian language did to it.
International Kenan Rifai Symposium
Shaykh Burhanuddin Herrmann on the core principle underlying any genuine spiritual path.
A 1989 talk on his own rendering of the Koran, read as a book of mystical experience.
Theosophical Society
A half-hour Sunday address to a Unitarian congregation, pitched at people meeting the Aramaic material for the first time and including him chanting some of it.
UU Community Church of SW Michigan
A talk on the soul's journey from within the Naqshbandi Sufi tradition.
An evening of Rumi read aloud, with what he learned from Bawa Muhaiyaddeen woven through it.
Great Mystery
A recent session on love as the structure of the cosmos in Ibn Arabi's reading.
Tokat Institute
Reflections from Camille Helminski from the San Damiano retreat.
Threshold Society
Her complete session in English at the Festival of Faiths in Louisville, on oneness and what the love of God asks of a person.
Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi closes his UK tour with the grand finale talk in Birmingham.
Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi
An hour and a half at Harvard on how the Islamic tradition reads the natural world, and what that asks of us now.
A keynote at Columbia on what happens to a text like the Futuhat when it is carried into English.
Columbia University
Hamid Hasan discusses spiritual awareness and its different expressions in women and men.
The School of Sufi Teaching
A talk at the Reviving the Islamic Spirit convention on love as the thing the tradition actually asks for.
Reviving the Islamic Spirit
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