Seyyed Hossein Nasr’s latest book on Sufism, The Garden of Truth: The Promise of Sufism, Islam’s Mystical Tradition (p. 56) reveals the mystical branch of Islam.

A brief look at what Sufism teaches In a new book, "The Garden of Truth," Seyyed Hossein Nasr presents the teachings of Sufism in contemporary language, drawing on his experience of more than 50 ...

I published a book, Historical Dictionary of the Sufi Culture of Sindh, and I started by asking a single question: ‘What is Sufism?’ ...

The book “My Speeches on Sufi Thought and Society” written by renowned Sindhi author Khadim Hussain Soomro was reviewed at Pakistan Academy of Letters here on Wednesday. The discussion on the ...

Traditional Sufism is a form of Islamic mysticism, with the Inayati order taking a more universalist approach. The teacher Pir Zia Inayat-Khan will discuss his book "Mingled Waters: Sufism and the ...

It is believed that the ideals of Sufism greatly influenced the spiritual teachings of Vaisnavism, the mysticism of the Bauls and Bengal's greatest poet of the modern era, Rabindranath Tagore.

Filled with experiences and anecdotes, Rana Safvi's book is not just an academic endeavour, but a people’s history of Sufism.(Getty Images) In popular culture—and possibly, due to the immense ...

The book becomes controversial, however, when al-Buni introduces his how-to guides on creating talismans using the names of God and a mixture of occult practices, such as numerology.

Rana Safvi’s book is a lucid, readable and detailed introduction to the various traditions of Sufism or tasawwuf in India. She describes the basic tenets of Sufism, recapitulates the history of early ...