Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar, the first American woman to translate the Qur’an, talks about why she decided to undertake this daunting 7- year project, the method she used to translate the Qur’an into English and what she learned from the experience.  Please check out her website at www.sublimequran.org.

Allaudin Mathieu, founder of the Sufi Choir, talks about his teachers Murshid Samuel Lewis, Pandat Prath Nanh and Hamza al-Din and living his life where Sufism and music intersect.  www.coldmountainmusic.com

Muslim American Teenagers What's it like to be a Muslim teenager growing up in America? Three teens, two of whom have co-authored a new book on that subject, talk about the gifts and difficulties of being an American Muslim Teenager.

Sufi Parenting My guest, Nura Laird will talk about what she's learned from her Sufi path about raising children. Mother of two grown children, she now teaches others how to apply Sufi principles to child-rearing.

Sufi Art for the Soul This week I'll be talking with Cynthia Lukas and Kell Kearns, producers of a new movie called, Rumi Returning which recently premiered at the Universal Forum of World Cultures in Mexico. Later in the hour, author G. Willow Wilson will join me, and we'll talk about her new graphic novel, Cairo, as well as what it's like to be a new convert to Islam.

Jewish Israeli Sufi Muslims I'll be talking with Safiyya Miller and Isaac Goren, both of whom were born and raised Jewish in Israel and who now practice Sufism with a Palestinian shaykh. They'll talk about how they were drawn to Islam, how they overcame their prejudices about it and how it has influenced their Jewish faith.

The Hajj Show Shaykh Noorudeen Durkee, Hajjah Noura Durkee and Amr Rashid recount their personal stories of awe and intimacy on the holy pilgrimage, the Hajj. This is one of my favorite shows.

Gray Henry, founder and director of Fons Vitae, one of the world's most respected sources of English translations of books on Islam and
Sufism.

Dr Laleh Bakhtiar, the first American woman to translate the Qur'an. We talk about why she felt another translation of the Qur'an was warranted (it had to do with one particular surah) and the method she used to do it.

Coleman Barks, renowned interpreter of Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi's poetry talks about his recent trip to Afghanistan and who he would be if he hadn't 'met' Rumi.