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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 ...

The target of the horrendous massacre in Egypt on Friday has been described as a Sufi mosque. More than 305 people were killed by suspected ISIS sympathizers. A lot of media outlets described Sufism ...

LOS ANGELES (RNS) The rhythmic chanting of 15 “beloveds,” as they call themselves, ripples across a prayer room in a family home in the San Fernando Valley. They stand in a circle with their hands ...

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 ...

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. The rise of Wahhabism has had a significant impact on the Middle East and beyond. This strict interpretation of Islam, which originated with an 18th century preacher based in the ...

The Tijaniyyah branch of Sufism in Islam had a larger influence on Islamic thought than many historians believe, Northwestern University Professor Zachary Wright said at an event Friday afternoon in ...

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. On Feb. 16, 2017, a bomb ripped through a crowd assembled at the tomb of a Sufi saint, Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, in southeastern Pakistan. Soon ...

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 ...