Members of the Sufi Karkariya order reach out to kiss the hands of their leader during a religious celebration of the prophet Muhammed's birthday, in Aroui, near Nador, eastern Morocco, Monday, Oct.

The Tijaniyya Sufi Order has stepped into recent tensions between Morocco and Senegal following the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations final, urging calm and warning against allowing sporting rivalries to ...

PRIZREN, Kosovo – For an Islamic dervish order in southern Kosovo, it's time for the annual celebration to mark the new year, the birthday of the sect's founder and spring. That means holding a ...

For a week in the middle of November, Bukhara played host to an unusual sight. Around 170 devotees of the Naqshbandi order of Sufism from some 18 countries, many of them wearing a colorful variety of ...

Chilean Muslims reflect significant diversity. The Naqshbandi Haqqani Sufis, a global Sufi order that originated in Central Asia, are among them. John Albert, CC BY Nora is a rare sight at the ...

Under a beating September sun in northeast Morocco, the humming sound of songs of praise fills the air with a tranquility that contrasts with a bitter succession battle rocking the country’s dominant ...

Hazrat Inayat Khan founded the Sufi Order in the West in 1910. Near the end of the 1900s, with guidance from the Persian poets Rumi and Hafiz and their translators, Coleman Barks and Robert Bly, I ...

Fresh clashes between Iranian security forces and Gonabadi dervishes follow years of tensions and persecution of dervishes, whose houses of worship have been destroyed and members detained. Who Are ...