So deeply has tasawwuf or the Sufi interpretation of Islam been ingrained in the Muslim psyche and since such a long time back that it is considered by many, especially so in the Indian subcontinent ...

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LOS ANGELES (RNS) The rhythmic chanting of 15 “beloveds,” as they call themselves, ripples across a prayer room in a family home in the San Fernando Valley. They stand in a circle with their hands ...

The target of the horrendous massacre in Egypt on Friday has been described as a Sufi mosque. More than 305 people were killed by suspected ISIS sympathizers. A lot of media outlets described Sufism ...

Seyyed Hossein Nasr’s latest book on Sufism, The Garden of Truth: The Promise of Sufism, Islam’s Mystical Tradition (p. 56) reveals the mystical branch of Islam. You’ve written over 50 books, ...

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. The rise of Wahhabism has had a significant impact on the Middle East and beyond. This strict interpretation of Islam, which originated with an 18th century preacher based in the ...

African Journal of Gender and Religion, Vol. 30, No. 1 (July 2024), pp. 1-27 (27 pages) This article will tackle how African Muslim Women represented by Sudanese women, are undergoing specific ...

This book does not do justice to its important subject. Muedini focuses on the political uses of Sufism in Algeria, Chechnya, Morocco, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, the United States, and ...

Parveen Akhtar has received funding from the British Academy and the Economic and Social Research Council. When an Islamic State (IS) suicide bomber killed 88 people and wounded hundreds more at a ...

When an Islamic State (IS) suicide bomber killed 88 people and wounded hundreds more at a Sufi shrine in Sehwan on February 16, it did not deter the devotees of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, the 13th-century ...