An Old American & a New Sufi
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Shaykh Robert Frager Raghib al-Jirrahi is a Harvard-trained psychologist. He is the past president of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology and the founder of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, where he is currently Director of the low residency Master of Arts in Spiritual Guidance programme and professor of Psychology. Shaykh Frager is renowned for his pioneering work in the field of transpersonal psychology and for his role in establishing the country's first educational institution dedicated to this emerging field of research and practice. He also teaches courses in Spiritual Psychology and The Wisdom of Islam at the online University of Philosophical Research in Los Angeles and also in the online M.A. programme of the Holmes Institute. He is also a shaykh in the Khalwati-Jirrahi Sufi Order. He was initiated by Shaykh Muzhaffar Uzak al-Jirrahi. He currently leads a darghah in Redwood City, Califo...