A state security court in Cairo has sentenced a woman who claims to be a Sufi mystic and leader of a Sufi sect to five years jail with hard labor. Sufism is a mystical way of practising Islam ...

After seven years, they officially began dating, with Anjali taking the first step by messaging Sufi about her experiences as a queer South Asian woman. Their relationship blossomed, leading to an ...

In Islam, this tradition is generally referred to as Sufism or tasawwuf. The term Sufism is of German coinage. In 1821, a Latin work by FAG Tholuck, a German professor of divinity, introduced the ...

This book is a must-read for scholars and students of women and gender, Sufism, and narrative traditions in early modern Central Asian and Islamic history.’ Jo-Ann Gross - Professor Emerita, The ...

Even till the late 1990s, Pakistanis visited the Sufi shrine, prayed and brought with ... a 50-year-old Hindu woman whose ...

The annual Ursof the renowned Sufi Saint, Hazrat Saman Sarkar, near Pangrio in Tando Bago Tehsil, has been overshadowed by severe mismanagement and tragic incidents. A young visitor was allegedly ...

The Founder of Muslims in Light Organisation Sufi Centre, Dr Rasheed Akinbile, has called on Nigerians to return to God, ...

As Kashmir advances under the Smart City Project, the quiet allure of its Rishi shrines reveals a profound cultural heritage often overlooked. In a region known as Reshiwaer—the Valley of Rishis—the ...

Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama is considering granting sovereign state status to the world headquarters of Bektashism, a ...

In another cultural event, the Federal Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Department of Culture and National Heritage, hosted a Sufi Night at Aiwan-e-Iqbal. The event, organised by former ...

Hisbah Director General, Abba Sufi, who confirmed the arrest of Sankara, said he was arrested after the board received a series of complaints of his immoral activities with the married woman.

The board’s Director General, Abba Sufi, confirmed the arrest of Sankara with the married woman on Friday evening. He said the arrest was made possible through intelligence tracking after ...