Kabir Helminski

Kabir Edmund Helminski (born July 1, 1947) is the author of a number of books on contemporary Sufism, a translator of Sufi poetry (especially the poetry of Rumi), and is the co-founder and co-director of Threshold Society. In 2001, Kabir was the first Muslim to deliver the Harold M. Wit Lectures on Spirituality in Contemporary Life at Harvard Divinity School. In 2007, he was also one of the original signatories of “A Common Word Between Us and You” an open letter by Islamic scholars to Christian…