Omid Safi is a teacher in the Sufi Tradition of Radical Love, and is the founder of Illuminated Courses & Tours. His passion for teaching has been recognized in the ten times that he's been nominated for Professor of the Year awards. He's a professor at Duke University specializing in Islamic spirituality and contemporary thought. A leading Muslim public intellectual, Omid is committed to the intersection of spirituality and social justice. He's published extensively on the foundational sources of Islam and Sufism. His Memories of Muhammad is a biography of the Prophet Muhammad. His most recent book is Radical Love: Teachings From the Islamic Mystical Tradition. Omid's also deeply committed to liberationist prophetic traditions in the legacy of Martin Luther King, Rabbi Heschel, and Malcolm X. He has been invited by the family of Dr. King to speak at Ebenezer Church on the relevance of Dr. King for today’s America, and has delivered the Martin Luther King keynote for the annual national MLK service.   

Omid often appears as an expert on Islam in The New York Times, Newsweek, Washington Post, PBS, NPR, NBC, BBC, CNN, and other outlets. He's a recent columnist for On Being, and now has a podcast Sufi Heart at Be Here Now. His Illuminated Tours have taken more than 1,000 friends from over twenty countries to Turkey and Morocco since 2002, and he is now offering Illuminated Courses for online offerings on spiritual traditions open to seekers of all backgrounds.