Podcasts by Path & Present w/Baraka Blue
Path & Present is a long form conversation hosted by poet, emcee, and teaching-artist Baraka Blue with friends and guests including artists, musicians, authors, and scholars to collectively explore what it means to walk a path of awakening and spiritual discernment in the modern world. Topics covered include spirituality/religion/metaphysics, community, art/music, psychology, social justice, Islam and Muslims in the West, and earth stewardship.
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Baraka Blue is a poet and musician from Seattle, Washington. After reading the works of Rumi and Ibn Arabi he traveled to study with contemporary Sufi teachers in Morocco, Turkey, Yemen, Egypt and beyond. He has a BA in Arabic from the University of Washington and was awarded a Master's Degree in Islamic Studies from the GTU, Berkeley for his research on the Sufi thought of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali. As a teaching-artist he has performed all over the world, including such institutions as Princeton and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
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#055: Wisdom Crystallized: What is Sufi Metaphysics? w/ Mohammed Rustom from 2021-03-25T16:14:59
We speak about the course Wisdom Crystallized: Sufi Metaphysics in 21 Verses. https://www.rumicenter.love/wisdom
https://www.mohammedrustom.com
Mohammed Rustom is Associate Profes...
#054: Awakening in the Dream: Ibn Arabi, Virtual Reality & Ultimate Reality w/ Oludamini Ogunnaike from 2020-08-29T19:37:59
Oludamini Ogunnaike holds a PhD in African Studies and the Study of Religion from Harvard University, and is Assistant Professor of African Religious Thought at the University of Virginia.
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#053: Islam & the Blackamerican: Reflections on Race, Religion & Identity w/ Dr. Sherman Jackson from 2020-06-04T18:13:39
Dr. Sherman Jackson is the King Faisal Chair of Islamic Thought and Culture, and Professor of Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California (USC).
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#052: A Ramadan in Retreat: Psychological/Spiritual Wellness in Isolation w/ Dr. Abdallah Rothman from 2020-04-26T22:52:17
Dr. Abdallah Rothman is an Islamic Psychology researcher and practitioner. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Board Certified Registered Art Therapist (ATR-BC). In addition to his ...
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#051: Women of Light w/ Ieasha Prime from 2020-01-30T19:40:39
Ieasha Prime converted to Islam more than 20 years ago, after being an International Youth Ambassador to Morocco and Senegal. It was during this time in her youth that she officially began studyin...
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#050: Beauty in Breaking: The Heart of Poetry w/ Amir Sulaiman (LIVE @ WASAT) from 2020-01-19T00:17:04
Amir Sulaiman is a poet, recording artist, Harvard Fellow, actor, screen writer and producer born in Rochester, New York. His poems cross subjects of love, tragedy as well as what it means to recon...
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#049: The Walking Quran: Insights from Islam in Africa w/ Dr. Bilal Ware from 2019-11-19T18:40:09
Dr. Bilal Ware is a historian of Africa and Islam. He is professor at UC Santa Barbara. He earned his Ph.D. in 2004 at the University of Pennsylvania where he trained in African History, African-Am...
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#048: 'Ayn al-Qudat's Tawhid of Iblis: In Defense of the Devil? w/ Mohammed Rustom from 2019-10-25T13:07:26
Mohammed Rustom is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Carleton University. He obtained a PhD from the University of Toronto in 2009, specializing in Islamic thought, Quranic exegesis, and Pe...
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#047: The Inner Search: 45 Years on the Sufi Path w/ Shems Friedlander from 2019-10-17T06:56:30
Shems Friedlander is the author of ten books, including a number of books about Rumi. He is a painter, photographer, designer, filmmaker, and educator. Friedlander was Emeritus Professor at the Ame...
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#046: The Way of the Whirling Dervish w/ Mithat Özçak?l from 2019-09-23T16:01:15
Mithat Özçak?l is a third generation dervish in the Mevlevi Sufi order, the order founded by Rumi, known in the West as the Whirling Dervishes. He is a graduate student at Selcuk University in the ...
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#045: Do it for the Deen: From Philly to al-Azhar w/ Youssef Kromah from 2019-08-27T13:38:59
Youssef Kromah is an award-winning poet, best-selling author, dynamic speaker, community activist and international television host at Huda TV in Cairo, Egypt.
He was first featured as a ...
#044: A Khalifa Upon the Earth: Islam & Stewardship w/ Rhamis Kent from 2019-08-06T17:29:04
Rhamis Kent is a consultant with formal training in mechanical engineering (University of Delaware, B.S.M.E. ’95) and permaculture-based regenerative whole systems design serving as a registered ce...
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#043: Knowledge of Self: An Islamic Model of the Soul w/ Abdallah Rothman from 2019-07-11T05:05:45
You can link to the model that we discuss here: https://images.app.goo.gl/o9o5e1TqBHA26rEcA
Dr. Abdallah Rothman is an Islamic Psychology researcher and practitioner. He is a Licensed Prof...
#042: Jesus in Sufism: Ibn 'Arabi, Creativity & the Christic Archetype w/ Ali Hussain from 2019-06-25T16:49:24
Dr. Ali Hussain obtained his doctoral degree in Islamic Studies from the University of Michigan, Department of Middle Eastern Studies. His research focuses on the image of Jesus Christ in the writi...
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#041: Divine Happenings w/ Hakim Archuletta from 2019-06-04T09:43:55
Hakim Archuletta has worked within the healing arts profession for over 30 years. He studied homeopathy and apprenticed with Dr. John Damonte in London in the early 70's. He continued these studies...
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#040: Sufism & Psychology: An Islamic Model of Spiritual Development w/ Abdallah Rothman from 2019-05-23T08:40:23
Dr. Abdallah Rothman is an Islamic Psychology researcher and practitioner. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Board Certified Registered Art Therapist (ATR-BC). In addition to his ...
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#039: Engaging the Reality through the Imaginary: Narrative & Spiritual Realization w/ Amir Sulaiman from 2019-05-10T08:49:49
Amir Sulaiman is a poet, recording artist, Harvard Fellow, actor, screen writer and producer born in Rochester, New York. His poems cross subjects of love, tragedy as well as what it means to recon...
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#038: The Polished Mirror: Storytelling and the Pursuit of Virtue in Sufism w/ Cyrus Zargar from 2019-03-04T10:46:47
Cyrus Zargar is the Endowed Al-Ghazali Distinguished Professor in Islamic Studies at the University of Central Florida. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in Near Eastern...
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#037: The Life & Legacy of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen w/ Shobhana Xavier from 2019-02-15T00:55
Dr. Xavier is a professor of Religious Studies at Queens University in Ontario Canada. She works on contemporary global Islam and Sufism, with particular regional interests in North America (United...
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#036: Holistic Islam w/ Kabir Helminski from 2019-02-01T21:28:01
Kabir Helminski is a Shaikh of the Mevlevi Order of Sufis, which traces its inspiration to Mevlana Rumi. He began his Mevlevi training as a student of the late Shaikh Suleyman Loras. In 1990 he was...
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#035: The Eye With Which He Sees: The Mysticism of Muhammad ? w/ Zachary Markwith from 2018-12-18T21:28:30
Zachary Markwith is the Executive Director of the Hub Foundation. He is also a doctoral candidate in Islamic Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He earned an MA (cum ...
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#034: Sufism Contested: Sufism & Anti-Sufism; Traditionalism & Universal Mysticism w/ Rory Dickson from 2018-09-10T15:38:18
Rory Dickson is Assistant Professor of Islamic Religion and Culture at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. He researches Sufism (Contemporary Sufism, Sufism and Islam, Sufism in North America).
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#033: What is Sacred Community? w/ Farooq Maseehuddin from 2018-08-13T08:20:56
Farooq Maseehuddin is the Founder of Tarjuma in Edmonton, Canada and has worked closely with Taleef Collective. His graduate research is a comparative study of Christian and Muslim communities in N...
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#032: One Love: The Sufi Path of Radical Love w/ Omid Safi from 2018-07-05T23:45:27
Omid Safi is an American Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University, where he is the Director of Duke Islamic Studies Center, and a columnist for On Being. Dr. Safi specialize...
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#031: Divine Comedy w/ Azhar Usman from 2018-05-06T18:11:41
Azhar is a standup comedian, actor, writer, playwright, and producer. He is one of Chicago's top standup comics; CNN called him "America's Funniest Muslim," and Georgetown University identified him...
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#030: Sacred Art, Sacred Science w/ Hunter Brown from 2017-12-21T18:03:42
Hunter Brown studied Art History and Physics at UC Berkeley. His core areas of research are early Buddhist art and ancient Asian art more generally. He is currently living in Bali and studying trad...
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#029: Tawba: Turning & Re-turning to the Source w/ Michael Haroon Sugich from 2017-10-30T09:51
Michael Sugich is a native of Santa Barbara, California and studied at UCLA and the California Institute of the Arts. He was initiated into a traditional Sufi order in 1972. Since that time he has ...
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#028: The Poetics of Radical Love: Rumi, Hafez, & the Persian Sufi Tradition w/ Leonard Lewisohn from 2017-10-08T19:15:20
Leonard Lewisohn is an American author, translator and lecturer in the area of Islamic studies and a specialist in Persian language and Sufi literature. He is the editor of Mawlana Rumi Review. He ...
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#027: The Heart Of Culture: Spirituality, Creativity, Community w/ Abdul-Rehman Malik from 2017-09-08T13:40:24
Abdul-Rahman Malik is an award winning London-based journalist, educator and organiser. Toronto born, he is Programmes Manager for the Radical Middle Way, and Director of the Insight Film Festival....
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#026: Seeing Through A Unique Lens w/ Antar Hanif from 2017-08-26T03:21:05
Antar Hanif (iAMSHOOTER) is a veteran photographer who has worked for many clients, including Ikea and Nike. More recently he has been focusing his lens in the fields of fashion and travel photogra...
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#025: The Art of Peace: Hip-Hop, Chess, and Martial Arts w/ Adisa Banjoko from 2017-08-08T06:34:31
Adisa Banjoko aka The Bishop is an author and educator based in the SF Bay Area. In 2006 he founded the 501c3 non-profit Hip-Hop Chess Federation Inc. They fuse music, chess and martial arts to pro...
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#024: Sociocultural Anthropology (From Cuba to Palestine & Beyond) w/ Michael Vicente Pérez from 2017-07-07T14:37:12
Michael Vicente Pérez is a professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Washington. His research interests include migration and displacement, ethnicity and nationalism, memory, vio...
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#023: Ibn 'Arabi, Rumi, & The Spiritual Power of Art w/ Ali Hussain from 2017-06-18T23:40:05
Ali Hussain is a doctoral candidate in Islamic studies in the department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan. His research focuses on Jesus in the thought and writings of the 12th/13th ...
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#022: The Life & Legacy of Syed Naquib al-Attas w/ Syed Muhiyuddin al-Attas from 2017-06-02T17:09:43
Syed Muhiyuddin bin Husein Al-Attas graduated with a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Otago, New Zealand in 2011. Since 2012 he has been a student of contemporary M...
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#021: Putting the Soul back in Psychology w/ Dr. Malik Badri from 2017-05-05T07:01:54
Professor Dr. Malik Badri was born in Rufa’a, Sudan in 1932. He obtained his B.A. (with distinction) and his Masters from the American University of Beirut, in 1956 and 1958 respectively. He furthe...
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#020: Living & Learning w/ Tamara Gray from 2017-04-11T09:02:07
Anse Tamara Gray is a scholar, translator, spiritual teacher, and publisher. She is the founder of Rabata, an organization dedicated to promoting positive cultural change through individual empower...
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#019: Diffused Congruence w/ Parvez Ahmed & Zaki Hasan from 2017-03-24T02:18
Parvez and Zaki have a really cool podcast called 'Diffused Congruence: The American Muslim Experience', with a wide range of interesting guests. We are co-releasing this episode on both of our pod...
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#018: American Veda, American Sufi: Pathways of Eastern Spirituality in the West w/ Philip Goldberg from 2017-03-01T20:16:40
Philip Goldberg is the author or co-author of numerous books; a public speaker and workshop leader; a spiritual counselor, meditation teacher and ordained Interfaith Minister. He lives in Los Ange...
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#017: Black & Muslim in Trump's America w/ Tyson Amir from 2017-02-19T05:03:52
Tyson Amir is a rapper, poet, musician, author and activist. He has also taught within the prison system for many years. He recently published his first book, 'Black Boy Poems'.
www.tysona...
#016: Jesus is in Seattle... & He's an Indian Muslim w/ Jamil Suleman from 2017-01-30T22:17:50
Jamil Suleman is an artist, activist, and teacher. http://www.jamilsuleman.com
He is also Seattle Jesus:
http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/meet-jamil-suleman-a-k-a-jesus-the-musl...
#015: The Living Path of Rumi: Walking the Way of Mevlana in the Modern World w/ Kabir Helminski from 2017-01-13T20:26:13
Kabir Helminski is a Shaikh of the Mevlevi Order of Sufis, which traces its inspiration to Mevlana Rumi. He began his Mevlevi training as a student of the late Shaikh Suleyman Loras. In 1990 he was...
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#014: From Symbol to Source: Remembering the True Self w/ Gray Henry from 2016-12-28T22:45:27
Virginia Aisha Gray Henry is the director of Fons Vitae, a publishing house devoted to world spirituality. She is a writer and film producer under contract with the Book Foundation, and co-founder ...
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#013: Meetings with Mountains: Reflections on Sainthood w/ Michael Sugich & Peter Sanders from 2016-12-07T17:49:31
Michael Sugich is a native of Santa Barbara, California and studied at UCLA and the California Institute of the Arts. He was initiated into a traditional Sufi order in 1972. Since that time he has ...
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#012: Living Sufism in North America: Tradition & Transformation w/ Rory Dickson from 2016-10-19T08:50:21
W. Rory Dickson is Assistant Professor of Islamic religion and culture at the University of Winnipeg. His interests are in Sufism, Contemporary Islam, and philosophy.
He is the author of ...
#011: America's Islamic History Museum w/ Amir Muhammad, "The People's Historian." from 2016-09-17T06:38:01
This podcast was recorded at America's Islamic History Museum, in Washington, D.C. with the founder and curator of the museum, Amir Muhammad a.k.a. "The People's Historian." http://www.aihmuseum.or...
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#010: Rappin’ with Rumi: An Interview w/ Baraka Blue in Malaysia from 2016-08-21T05:32:26
Greetings of Peace loved ones! Apologies for the time between podcasts. I have been on the road for the last 3 months and haven't been able to sit down for another episode. I just finished up a tou...
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#009: Malcolm X, Islam & Hip Hop w/ Usama Canon, Alia Sharrief, One Be Lo, Brother Ali from 2016-05-28T19:27:42
Usama Canon is the Founding Director of Taleef Collective, a community based non-profit focused on creating healthy social and sacred spaces. He is also a spiritual advisor to the Inner-City Muslim...
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#008: Studying The Study Quran w/Dr. Joseph Lumbard from 2016-04-19T18:00:17
Joseph E. B. Lumbard (General Editor of The Study Quran) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Arabic and Translation Studies at the American University of Sharjah and an Associate Editor for...
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#007: Decolonizing the Heart w/Dustin Craun from 2016-02-16T01:32:03
Dustin Craun is the CEO and Founder of Ummah Wide, a digital media and film production startup telling stories that transcend the borders of global communities. He is a social innovator, writer, di...
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#006: The Spiritual Hunt w/ Dawood Yasin from 2016-01-19T16:36:55
Dawood Yasin is a bow-hunter, outdoorsman, primitive-skills teacher, Imam, and creator of #getyourownhalal. He is currently the Coordinator of Learning Outside the Classroom at Zaytuna College.
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#005: Sufism & Vedanta w/ Sri Swamini Svatmavidyananda Saraswati from 2015-12-28T19:47:11
In this conversation on the mystical dimensions of Hinduism and Islam we discuss the importance of lineage; the role of tradition, discipline and submission; the unique psychology of the Western se...
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#004: The All-American Journey of the People's Imam w/ Imam Zaid Shakir from 2015-12-14T20:41:31
Imam Zaid shares his journey and offers his thoughts on the current anti-Muslim political climate in America.
One of Americas most prominent Imam's shares his journey growing up in a segre...
#003: ISIS, Muslims in the West, Race, & Racism w/ Shaykh Abdullah bin Hamid Ali from 2015-11-26T04:15:02
Shaykh Abdullah bin Hamid Ali is a senior faculty member of Zaytuna College (America's first Muslim Liberal Arts College), and founder of Lamppost Education Initiative. He studied the traditional I...
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#002: Hip Hop, History & Islam in America w/ Brother Ali from 2015-10-31T18:12:26
Brother Ali is an American hip hop artist, community activist and member of the Rhymesayers Entertainment hip hop collective.
http://brotherali.com
*Correction: When Ali mentions ...
#001: Permaculture w/ Rhamis Kent from 2015-10-07T17:23:22
Rhamis Kent is a world renowned permaculture* expert and educator. He has trained with Geoff Lawton at the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia. He is currently advising and involved in Per...
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