Transforming the Soul: Spiritual Psychology & the Sufi Path with Baraka Blue & Dr. Abdallah Rothman: Rumi Center for Spirituality & the Arts - April 20, 2025

A special session exploring these essential questions: How do we move beyond the limitations of the lower self? How can we cultivate inner stillness and spiritual insight? What are the diseases of the heart and their cures? How do outer religious practices connect to inner spiritual dimensions? These are all questions we dive deep into and cover in our Sufi Psychology online course. To join us, enroll here:  www.rumicenter.love/sufi-psychology

YouTube Video:https://youtu.be/kX2skcg5KnA?si=PXoj66AHePu1vF6w

Rumi Center for Spirituality and the Arts Website: https://www.rumicenter.love/

Baraka Blue Website:https://barakablue.com/

Baraka Blue's Books: Amazon: "The Art of Remembrance "-Baraka Blue is one of the most widely read Sufi poets in the world today. In the great tradition of Rumi and Hafez, his poetry is at once ecstatic and humorous, insightful and amorous, joyful and nostalgic. In flashes of the visionary, the playful, the passionate, the lyrical, and the profound, Baraka Blue's words serve as a lively spiritual companion to all seekers, lovers and people of heart. amazon.com

Amazon: "Reedbed Diaspora " The reed flute represents the human being- cut from the primordial spiritual realm, from communion with our Source in the river of pure peace, light, and gnosis. After a time before time in the divine presence, witnessing and communing with the Ultimate Reality, we were brought out from the riverbed and placed in the here-below. We have come to this realm, according to the Sufis, to witness, remember and awaken to our original state. At the core of our beings we all yearn for this return. For we are the Reedbed Diaspora. Baraka Blue is a poet, emcee, and educator born in Seattle, Washington. He is known for his unique blend of the American traditions of Hip-Hop and Spoken Word poetry with the Islamic tradition of mystical poetry exemplified by Rumi, Hafiz, and others. He has performed across North America and internationally, in countries such as the U.K., Turkey, the Gambia, Senegal, Egypt and Morocco. amazon.com

Dr.Abdallah Rothman Website:https://abdallahrothman.com/

Amazon Books: "Developing a Model of Islamic Psychology & Psychotherapy"-At a time when there is increasing need to offer psychotherapeutic approaches that accommodate clients’ religious and spiritual beliefs, and acknowledge the potential for healing and growth offered by religious frameworks, this book explores psychology from an Islamic paradigm and demonstrates how Islamic understandings of human nature, the self, and the soul can inform an Islamic psychotherapy.

Drawing on a qualitative, grounded theory analysis of interviews with Islamic scholars and clinicians, this unique volume distils complex religious concepts to reconcile Islamic theology with contemporary notions of psychology. Chapters offer nuanced explanations of relevant Islamic tradition and theological sources, consider how this relates to Western notions of psychotherapy and common misconceptions, and draw uniquely on first-hand data to develop a new theory of Islamic psychology. This, in turn, informs an innovative and empirically driven model of practice that translates Islamic understandings of human psychology into a clinical framework for Islamic psychotherapy.

An outstanding scholarly contribution to the modern and emerging discipline of Islamic psychology, this book makes a pioneering contribution to the integration of the Islamic sciences and clinical mental health practice. It will be a key resource for scholars, researchers, and practicing clinicians with an interest in Islamic psychology and Muslim mental health, as well as religion, spirituality and psychology more broadly. amazon.com

Amazon: "Clinical Applications of Islamic Psychology"Islamic Psychology (IP) is rapidly developing and growing in the public interest, with more academic and clinical training programs worldwide. Over the past decade, much work has gone into creating theoretical frameworks and therapeutic modalities for applying IP principles in clinical settings. A significant amount of work is dispersed throughout the world in isolated settings as individuals or groups of practitioners develop and implement their models. This edited volume provides a window into some of that work from clinicians globally, attempting to put IP concepts, principles, and frameworks into therapeutic practice. This work builds on the momentum of academic discourse and practical applications, contributing to the field's evolution as it moves toward mainstream recognition. The authors of each chapter present their professional experiences, ideas, methods, and evidence-based research, giving a broad view of the current state of affairs in the clinical applications of Islamic psychology.amazon.com

Amazon: "Islamic Psychology Around the Globe"Islamic Psychology (IP) is an emerging discipline evident from a consistent growth of publications worldwide in the last 40 years. While the body of knowledge and practice is not new and was known as Ilm an-Nafs or science of the self during the Islamic Golden Age, it lost its significance for many centuries primarily because of the secularization of psychology and colonization of the Muslim world. IP has now developed into a professional and academic field, as it tries to understand the human self from an Islamic worldview. This book examines IP development in 17 countries ranging from Indonesia to Bosnia to the United States. A bird's eye view of the discipline's growth, as offered across the chapters in this book, can help the reader understand the history, challenges, and prospects of this developing field and illuminate for the broader field of psychology how the Islamic tradition has been integrated into mental health practices in Muslim communities. The book broadens the reach of modern psychology by exploring spirituality and religion in the Muslim world.amazon.com