Safi, Omid, 1970-

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Safi, Omid, 1970-
Date of birth
1970-12-12
Gender
male
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Other Identifiers

VIAF: 119529121
Wikidata: Q7090173
Library of congress: no2001080141
Sources of Information
  • Power and the politics of knowledge, 2000:t.p.(Omid Safi) leaf 473 (b. Dec. 12, 1970)

Wikipedia description:

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. Safi specializes in Islamic mysticism (Sufism), contemporary Islamic thought and medieval Islamic history. Before joining Duke University, Safi was a professor at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Prior to joining the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he was on faculty at Colgate University as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion from 1999 to 2004.

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