Dr. Ibrahim Gamard

DR. IBRAHIM GAMARD is a Rumi scholar and retired licensed psychologist who has studied Sufism since 1971. He is the author of Rumi and Islam: Selections from His Stories, Poems, and Discourses—Annotated & Explained.

Gamard received his Ph.D. in Psychology in 1986. A member of the Mevlevi Order, the Sufi order originating with Rumi, he was made a Mevlevi Shaykh in 2007 by Faruk Hemdem Celebi.

When not writing, Gamard teaches himself classical Persian to study Rumi’s poetry directly and has posted translations online since 1997. His scholarly work is rooted in his practice of Islam, which he embraced in 1984, and his completion of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in 1999.

Ibrahim lives near Santa Rosa, California.

Dr. Ibrahim Gamard’s books are published by SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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