In contemporary cultural and ideological conflicts, where Salafi and other activist movements frame themselves against a perceived hostile West, while Western narratives often portray Islam as ...

Albania's prime minister has revealed plans to establish a microstate for Sufi Muslims within the country's capital, Tirana. At the UN General Assembly last week, Prime Minister Edi Rama said the ...

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 ...

In our series World of Worship, we're exploring different ways people practice faith and religion around the globe. In this installment, we go on a journey to Konya, Turkey, to witness some Sufi ...

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. The rise of Wahhabism has had a significant impact on the Middle East and beyond. This strict interpretation of Islam, which originated with an 18th century preacher based in the ...

Introduction: A long view of Sufism and political culture in India -- The Mughals, the Sufi Shaikhs, and the formation of the Akbari dispensation -- A Sufi critique of religious law, tasawwuf, and ...

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 ...

Samanta is on the faculty in the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech. Here's a fact that has not been on the radar in the recent controversy about the proposed building of the Cordoba ...

On May 31, Mo Sabri makes a landmark appearance with the Nashville Symphony for an orchestral rendition of his new album, ...

Three people injured in attack perpetrated by eight men. A group of machete-wielding men attacked members of a Sufi Muslim sect in western Bangladesh injuring three people, police said on Sunday, the ...

A suicide bomber blew himself up at a gathering of Sufi Muslims north of Baghdad, killing 10 people, Interior Ministry officials said Friday. The bomber detonated his explosives Thursday night in a ...