Sufism on the brink of extinction in Kashmir. Sufism is deeply ingrained in the culture of Kashmir, yet very few people practice it. Sufis believe in oneness with God and the purity of souls, which is ...

Roger Schultz of Loveland became interested in Idries Shah in 1972 after viewing a film in Boulder. Today, 20 years after Shah died, he has decided to introduce more people to the man considered one ...

Rumi introduced himself, saying: I am neither Christian nor Jew, Neither Persian nor Muslim. I am neither the East nor West, Neither from land nor from water. He refused to be confined to any faith or ...

Edited by two academics – Surinder Singh and Ishwar Dayal Gaur – this book in its revised second edition, carries essays of several writers, academics and historians, focusing on the various aspects ...

Affan Yesvi is a Sufi scholar, columnist, and entrepreneur. As a descendant of the 11th-century Sufi saint, Khawaja Ahmed Yasawi - a mystic, poet, and founder of the Yasaviyya Sufi order in Central ...

Zihaal-e-miskin, written by the Sufi saint Amir Khusrow, is famed for its alternating lines in Farsi and Khariboli, or vernacular Hindustani. If you have had enough of YouTube renditions, and want to ...

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 ...

For Delhi singer Vedi Sinha, a journey to Rajasthan to volunteer at the folk music festival Kabir Yatra, gave birth to The Aahvaan Project — Sinha’s musical and ...

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