Merin Shobhana Xavier
Merin Shobhana Xavier is associate professor of religion and diaspora at Queen’s University. She is the author of The Dervishes of the North: Rumi, Whirling, and the Making of Sufism in Canada and Sacred Spaces and Transnational Networks in American Sufism: Bawa Muhaiyaddeen and Contemporary Shrine Cultures, and a co-author of Contemporary Sufism: Piety, Politics, and Popular Culture.
