Dr H.A. Hellyer is senior non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Royal United Services Institute, and Professor at the Centre for Advanced Study of Islam, Science and Civilisation. Sufism ...

Kosovo dervishes, adepts of Sufism — a mystical form of Islam that preaches tolerance and a search for understanding — meet in a prayer room in the city of PrizrenArmend Nimani / AFP / Getty In recent ...

With the Syrian civil war in its fourth year—and now with Russia’s direct intervention on behalf of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad—Washington is more keen than ever to push back the self-proclaimed ...

Sufism is mystical and ascetic form of Islam practiced by tens of millions of Muslims. But radical Islamists have taken to targeting Sufis in brutal attacks, such as the recent massacre in Egypt. A ...

Qawwali was introduced to the world in the thirteenth century, but qawwali gained worldwide prominence in the twentieth century because famous Qawwals such as Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Sabri ...

Lawyer Farshid Yadollahi was 18 years old when he had a spiritual dream that led him on a search for the truth and resulted in his becoming a Sufi. Seventeen years later, Yadollahi says that whatever ...

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 ...

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad, sallallaahu 'alyhi wa sallam, is His slave and Messenger. We ...

Jason Webster on why the republication of Idries Shah book about Sufism – whose enthusiasts have included Winston Churchill, Ted Hughes and Doris Lessing – couldn’t be more timely Fifty years ago this ...

Chairperson of the Jammu and Kashmir Waqf Board Syed Darakhshan Andrabi on Thursday said that Sufism remains the soul of Kashmir and asserted that Jammu and Kashmir is witnessing a new era of communal ...