Sufi leaders in Afghanistan claim that at least 60 percent of the country's population are followers of Sufism, or at least support and respect Sufi values. "Ziyarats," believed to be the burial ...

Generally, the creation of Pakistan is attributed to the political struggle launched by the All India Muslim League under the leadership of Quaid-i-Azam. Among serious academics, Muslim League and ...

JUST FOUR MONTHS AGO, thousands of mourners thronged the Grand Mosque in Mecca for the funeral of a famous Sufi teacher. This was an extraordinary event, given the discrimination against all ...

PRESIDENT OBAMA’S eloquent endorsement on Friday of a planned Islamic cultural center near the World Trade Center, followed by his apparent retreat the next day, was just one of many paradoxes at the ...

Adherents of Sufism, a mystical sect of Islam that has long been popular in Egypt, now see their tolerant traditions threatened by the growth of hard-line Salafism, an Islamic sect that claims to ...

(The Conversation ) — A new attack on a Sufi mosque in Egypt drives home the hatred of Islamic State and other some other Muslim groups for the Sufi traditions of inclusiveness and mystical worship.

The Valley of Kashmir is world renowned for its snow-clad mountain peaks, orchards of apples and almonds, lush green pastures and meadows, Chinar trees, valleys of Gulmarg and Pahalgam, magnificent ...

In the book The Sufis, author Idries Shah wrote that no academic study of Sufism is complete if the researcher is not a working Sufi. The performers of the musical show Sound of the Sufis prove that ...

Chairman Press Council of India,former judge Supreme Court Of India. I am strongly opposed to religious extremism. That is why I highly respect the Sufis, and I do not approve of the religious ...