Sufi Women's Lives & Contributions-1/3-Aisha Gray Henry

" Sufi Women: Their Lives and Contributions".A lecture by Aisha Gray Henry,Director,Fons Vitae, delivered at International Mawlid un Nabi Conference 2000(Womens Session),UIC,Chicago, Sponsored by Naqshbandiya Foundation for Islamic Education (www.nfie.com )
VIRGINIA(AISHA) GRAY HENRY-BLAKEMORE is the director of the interfaith publishing houses Fons Vitae and Quinta Essentia, a writer and video producer, U.S. director of photography and children's book publisher Dar Nun, and co-founder and trustee of the Islamic Texts Society of Cambridge, England. She is also a founding member of the Thomas Merton Center Foundation, coordinated the 1994 visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Louisville, worked in Bosnian refugee camps in 1993, has organized a number of conferences focused on the work of Thomas Merton at Bellarmine University, and is a leader in the Interfaith Paths to Peace Institute and the Cathedral Heritage Foundation.

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• Islam
• Sufism
• Sufi Women
• Gray Henry
• Fons Vitae
• Mawlid
• Naqshbandiya
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