Omid Safi is an Iranian-American professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University.
He was the Director of Duke Islamic Studies Center from July 2014 to June 2019 and was a columnist for On Being.
[3] Safi is a leader of the progressive Muslim movement,[5] which he defines as encompassing a number of themes: striving to realize a just and pluralistic society through a critical engagement with Islam, a relentless pursuit of social justice, an emphasis on gender equality as a foundation of human rights, and a vision of religious and ethnic pluralism.
[7] As such, he has been described by Kevin Eckstrom, editor-in-chief of the Religion News Service, as "on the front edge of a generation of scholars who, with one foot in both worlds, are trying to explain Islam and the West to each other.
[citation needed] His more recent work in this area is Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition, which was published by Yale University Press in 2018.