For decades, Delhi has been the land of Sufi movement and served as a muse to Sufi luminaries like Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya, Amir Khusrau, Mirza Ghalib, and Dara Shikoh. Celebrating this Sufi legacy, ...

Many people predicted the death of Sufism – what could Islamic mysticism have to do with the third millennium? But after the terrorist attacks in New York and London, the Sufi movement has been ...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Every Friday afternoon people flock to a small mosque in one of the alleys in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City. They are there not only to perform the five daily ...

It’s March 24, the final Monday night of Ramadan, and Barzakh Cafe — a cozy venue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn — is packed for a qawwali, the Sufi devotional music tradition that originated in ...

Despite the popularity of Sufism, few books provide an overview of this mystical branch of Islam— a void Nasr, professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University, fills nicely, albeit ...

For centuries, most African Muslims observed their faith according to Sufi practices. Syncretic, mystical, and emphasizing experiencing God, Sufism was well suited to thrive on a continent where ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- Nine members of a Sufi group in Kazakhstan have been jailed after being convicted on charges including religious extremism, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. The nine were found ...