International Association of Sufism (IAS)

The International Association of Sufism, based in California, is an international Sufi organization founded in the lineage of Shah Maghsoud by Dr Nahid Angha and Dr Ali Kianfar. It carries the Sufi tradition publicly through teaching, publishing and gatherings, and holds UN-affiliated NGO status.

Its program is wide: the Sufism Symposium series that has gathered Sufi teachers and seekers for decades, the Institute for Sufi Studies with its courses, Sufi Psychology programs including the 40 Days Alchemy of Tranquility practice, and the Sufi Women Organization with its own code of ethics, grants and speaker series. The association publishes the Sufism Journal, books and the IAS Insight newsletter, and runs an annual dinner, music and poetry events, and humanitarian programs including its Voices for Justice award.

IAS is a teaching and convening body rather than a single-order tariqa: its founders sit in an established Sufi lineage, and its programs make Sufi study accessible to an international public while keeping the tradition's scholarship and practice at the center. The institution's stated mission: To serve as a bridge between Sufi traditions and the wider world.