Author Bio
Yannis Toussulis, Ph.D. is the primary successor of Mehmet Selim Ozic of Istanbul. He is also a traditionally authorized murshid in the lineage of Pir Nur al-Arabi, the Nuriyya-Malamiyya and an inheritor of six chains of transmission from the following Sufi Orders: Naqshbandi, Qadiri, Rifa’i Khalwati, Mawlawi, and Uwaysi. Dr. Toussulis is also the sole surviving successor of the late Hasan Sari Dede (d. 1997), a Qadiri-Rifa’i Shaykh and a great lover of Mawlana Jalauddin Rumi.
Dr. Toussulis serves as the spiritual director of the Itlaq Foundation which was named after the spiritual approach of Hasan Lutfi Susud, a malamati Sufi who influenced the later work of J.G. Bennett.
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Books By Dr. Toussulis
(Reviewed in Sufi Magazine Issue 82, Winter 2012 By David Paquiot)
Sufism and the Way of Blame: Hidden Sources of a Sacred Psychology
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Dr. Yannis Toussulis’ Interviews
Synopsis:
What is the Way of Blame in the Sufi tradition? It’s not likely what you’re thinking. Dr. Yannis Toussulis, psychologist, is the author of ‘Sufism and the Way of Blame: Hidden Sources of a Sacred Psychology.’ He currently serves as director of Itlaq Foundation – a non-denominational religious non-profit dedicated to Sufi Studies.
Dr. Toussulis formerly served as director of the Consciousness Program, Antioch University/West, and taught political psychology at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.Topics in this engaging hour include: What Sufism is; what the Way of Blame refers to; superfluous blame and guilt as obstacles; the Malamati school of Sufism, dating back to the 9th century; meaning; values; non-duality; the lack of the necessity to adopt a doctrinaire system of fixed beliefs; spiritual maturity; how the image of God changes as we do; obstructions to growth; martyrdom; dialogue; religious tolerance; his work with the last living representative of the Malamati school; the week’s tip for your Spiritual Tool Belt; and more.
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Articles by Dr. Yannis Toussulis
- Is it Possible to Discover the “Essence” of Sufism or Islam? by Dr Yannis Toussulis Author of Sufism and the Way of Blame
- The Cult of the Self by Dr Yannis Toussulis
- Differences Between Unity and Separation – A Vital Distinction by Dr. Yannis Toussulis
- Indications of Spiritual Narcissism by Dr Yannis Toussulis
- Is Sufism or Islam “The Answer?” by Dr. Yannis Toussulis
- Sufism and the Way of Blame featured on the Ibn Arabi Society book Notices for 2011
