Wardah Sessions

Dr. Hisham A. Hellyer is an academic and public intellectual who researches the politics and geopolitics of the contemporary Middle East, security studies globally, and the interplay between faith and modernity. A scholar in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (USA), and Senior Associate Fellow in International Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute (UK), he also serves as Fellow of Cambridge University’s Centre for Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. He was also appointed as the first senior scholar of the Azzawia Institute by the late Shaykh Seraj Hendricks, and professorial fellow of Cambridge Muslim College. In this episode, we speak with Dr. Hisham A. Hellyer about two of his books, A Sublime Path: the Sufi Way of the Sages of Makka and A Luminous Lamp, on the life and work of Shaykh Seraj Hendricks. These books are available at Wardah Books.