Nov-27 6:05p.m. ABC-Radio National: The Spirit of Things – The Sufi Spirit
Prayer that brings a permanent awareness of the Divine Reality is the aim of Sufism first and foremost, which London based Sufi scholar, Reza Shah-Kazemi, believes is the key to its universality. Sufism’s mystical universalism is what interests Hebrew University scholar, Sara Sviri, who considers the phenomenon of ‘Jewish Sufism’ beginning with Maimonides’ son.