The Jordanian Sufi Cult: “Trapped Between Worlds”
Was I In A Cult?27 Okt 2025

The Jordanian Sufi Cult: “Trapped Between Worlds”

When Raidah left medical school in Sydney to spend the summer at what was promise to be an Islamic utopia in Jordan, she thought she was taking a break to heal.


Instead, she found herself inside a high-control religious community led by Nuh Ha Mim Keller — an American-born Catholic convert who reinvented himself as a Sufi sheikh and built a devoted following of Muslims living in Western countries.


Through his English-language books, lectures, and retreats, Keller promised these diaspora Muslims a spiritual home — a refuge from Western chaos and Islamophobia.


But what Raidah found instead… was a cult.


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