Dr H.A. Hellyer is senior non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Royal United Services Institute, and Professor at the Centre for Advanced Study of Islam, Science and Civilisation. Sufism ...

Sufism emerged from Islamic spiritual traditions while interacting with Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and local cultures across its historical development.

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 ...

Lawyer Farshid Yadollahi was 18 years old when he had a spiritual dream that led him on a search for the truth and resulted in his becoming a Sufi. Seventeen years later, Yadollahi says that whatever ...

Sections of Keralam’s Muslim community recently came out against Professor Shabnam Noorjahan, who had defended Sufism, and ...

Sufism is considered the mystical side of Islam, the bearer of the hidden mysteries of divine revelation. In its essence, it is defined as a spiritual path and is translated into the existence of ...

Islam began as something strange, and so it will become again one day, and blessed are the strangers. ~Hadith In a somewhat random conversation I had recently a woman said to me, “You know, my ...

Kosovo dervishes, adepts of Sufism — a mystical form of Islam that preaches tolerance and a search for understanding — meet in a prayer room in the city of PrizrenArmend Nimani / AFP / Getty In recent ...

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad, sallallaahu 'alyhi wa sallam, is His slave and Messenger. We ...