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Niyazi Sayin

Proportion, Beauty, and the Divine: Kabir Helminski in Conversation with Peter Gould on Design as Spiritual Practice

Threshold Ilahi Project – “See What Love Has Done to Me”

This album is a heartfelt offering from the Threshold Sufi Music Ensemble, recorded in Istanbul under the guidance of Kabir Dede and a circle of devoted musicians. It brings together fifteen ilahis—traditional Sufi songs—from the living Mevlevi tekke tradition, arranged across five classical maqams. The pieces are intended to be listened to in sequence, evoking [...]

George Eliot’s Sufi Influence

Daniel Thomas Dyer explores George Eliot’s most celebrated novel, Middlemarch, and the characters that powerfully evoke Sufi wisdom

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Proportion, Beauty, and the Divine: Kabir Helminski in Conversation with Peter Gould on Design as Spiritual Practice

Suleyman Dede (1904-January 19, 1985)

"The one in whom poverty is complete is the one in whom God appears" ~Shams of Tabriz

The Idea of Spiritual Training

From The Knowing Heart The role of a Sufi teacher in modern culture is analagous to an athletic coach who would like to train people to develop their abilities to an Olympic level. He would have been educated for this and have the appropriate degree. Without necessarily being the greatest athlete himself, he would be [...]