Sufism on the brink of extinction in Kashmir. Sufism is deeply ingrained in the culture of Kashmir, yet very few people practice it. Sufis believe in oneness with God and the purity of souls, which is ...

JAFFA, Israel -- In a family's living room in this seaside town, seven people spin in circles to the beat of a drum and the strumming of a guitar. As the music gets faster, so does their turning, with ...

From the 9th century onwards, Sufism has encapsulated Islamic spirituality. This is the loving heart of Islam, still alive, thriving and widely influential today. It is not the Islam of ...

Commonly associated with the poetry of Rumi and frequently equated with whirling dervishes, Sufism has often been viewed as a development quite apart from mainstream Islam. Although partially eclipsed ...

The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 33, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE: THE RELIGIOUS STRUCTURE OF PHENOMENA (2019), pp. 22-40 (19 pages) https://doi.org/10.5325 ...

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 ...

Sufi masters have instructed that it is advisable to busy the self with something worth doing. If not, the self shall busy you with something not worth your time. The profound wisdom of these words ...

When an Islamic State (IS) suicide bomber killed 88 people and wounded hundreds more at a Sufi shrine in Sehwan on February 16, it did not deter the devotees of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, the 13th-century ...

Director Gabo Arora has spent the past few years promoting virtual reality as the ideal medium for evoking empathy. He spearheaded the UN's VR app, which featured two of his films, Clouds Over Sidra ...

JAFFA, Israel -- In a family's living room in this seaside town, seven people spin in circles to the beat of a drum and the strumming of a guitar. As the music gets faster, so does their turning, with ...