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Podcast: Muslim Footprints
Episode: Ep 1: Nasir Khusraw’s travels and spirituality with Dr Alice Hunsberger
Description: Nasir Khusraw’s turning point could be described as a midlife crisis. He was a senior bureaucrat in Central Asia, enjoying a life of travel and socialising. But a more urgent current ran under the delights of the world, namely his aching desire to have some purpose, some answer to the question of why all this exists. A powerful dream shocked him out of his ‘forty years’ sleep’, and he became convinced that he must change his life completely, and use this truth to change the world. Â
Dr Alice Hunsberger, an expert on the 11th century sage, scholar an...