In this Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012 photo, tourists gather at a Sufi shrine during their tour of Sufi shrines in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh near Ramallah. Through hikes and rides along the hills ...

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 ...

The formation of schools of mysticism -- The chief Tarīqa lines -- The formation of Tā'ifas -- Nineteenth-century revival movements -- The mysticism and theosophy of the orders -- The organization of ...

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 ...

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Sheikh Muhammad Nazim Adil al-Qubrusi al-Haqqani, a leading figure of Sufism, the mystical branch of the Islamic faith, died Wednesday at the age of 92 in the north of ...

Schwartz, a journalist and convert to Islam, offers Sufism, the mystical branch of Islam, as an aid to the United States’ efforts to fight extremism. He provides an incomparable history of Sufism, ...

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 ...

Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan — A massive suicide bomb ripped through a revered Sufi shrine in southern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 72 people and wounding more than 250 in one of the ...