Muinuddin Charles Smith

Muinuddin Charles Smith, PhD, is a senior teacher, retreat guide, interfaith minister and teacher of Ziraat in the Inayati Sufi Order. He is Professor Emeritus of leadership and sustainability studies at Hofstra University, and served as the Chair of Spirituality and Systems Interest

Muinuddin Charles Smith also co-author of the book An Emerald Earth Cultivating a Natural Spirituality and Serving Creative Beauty in Our World’, recently translated into French. He co-leads the Inayatiyya Sufi Center in New York City. Along with Kainat Felicia Norton, he offers meditation retreats and workshops worldwide. (http://www.anemeraldearth.org).

Upcoming Programs by Muinuddin Charles Smith

Emerald Earth

Also with Kainat Felicia Norton

May 1 - 3, 2026

We will gather in retreat within the renewing energy of the Spring in the beautiful nature of the Abode in the Berkshire mountains. We will attune to the sacred manuscript of Nature, to seeing with the eyes of Sophia, the creative feminine, to the sacred wisdom of the earth, and to the alchemical and Ziraat […]