This much is clear: Kano State authorities in northern Nigeria accused the Sufi Muslim singer Yahaya Sharif-Aminu of circulating social media messages containing lyrics they said attacked the Prophet ...

In Pico Iyer’s new novel, Abandon, a character laments the poor turnout for a lecture on Islamic theology. If the lecture’s listing had used the word “Sufi,” he thinks to himself, “there’d have been ...

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 ...

(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.

BARZANJA, IRAQ - The dervishes swayed with the drumbeat, flinging their long hair and chanting "Allah, Allah." Nearby others were showing, as one put it, their "passion for God": one drove a skewer ...

In recent years, the dominant image of islam in the minds of many Westerners has been one loaded with violence and shrouded with fear. The figures commanding global attention — be they al-Qaeda’s ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract With the entry of Muslim society into the modern era in the nineteenth century, Sufi beliefs and rituals became the focus of systematic debate ...

The deadly attack at a mosque in Egypt on Friday focused attention on a common, yet sometimes-controversial Islamic tradition: Sufism. The mosque in Egypt's Sinai region where more than 300 people ...

KONYA, Turkey — Each year, thousands of people travel to the Turkish city of Konya to attend a weeklong series of events and ceremonies that mark the death of the 13th-century Islamic poet, scholar ...