Kabir Edmund Helminski (born July 1, 1947) is the author of a number of books on contemporary Sufism, a translator of Sufi poetry (especially the poetry of Rumi), and is the co-founder and co-director of Threshold Society. In 2001, Kabir was the first Muslim to deliver the Harold M. Wit Lectures on Spirituality in Contemporary Life at Harvard Divinity School. In 2007, he was also one of the original signatories of “A Common Word Between Us and You”[1] an open letter by Islamic scholars to Christian leaders calling for peace and understanding.
In 2009, he was named as one of the “500 Most Influential Muslims in the World”[2] by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center in association with Georgetown University. In 2017 he was consulted and quoted in the Declaration on Humanitarian Islam, a detailed roadmap for the recontextualization of Islamic Orthodoxy by the world’s largest Muslim organization, Nahdlatul Ulama/Ansor, based in Indonesia.