Diversity is a Mercy from God: Rumi's Teachings and the Quran with Dr. Tarik Quadir

Tarik Quadir is a Bangladeshi-American who studied Sufism, Islamic Philosophy, Perennial Philosophy, and Islamic Environmentalism with the renowned Islamic philosopher Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Dr. Quadir received an MA in Islamic studies from George Washington University followed by an MA in Indo-Muslim Culture from Harvard University. It was his love for Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi that first led him to Konya in 1998. And after receiving a Phd from the University of Birmingham (UK) on the subject of the Islamic response to the environmental crisis, he moved to Konya (Turkey) where he now works in the Rumi Research Center at Mevlana (Rumi) University.

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