FREMONT — Each Sunday evening, Ayyaz Yousaf gets together with roughly 30 to 40 people in Fremont for a spiritual gathering. Known as a zikr, this weekly session or ritual meditation begins with an ...

Sufism in Kashmir was never merely an abstract symbol of spirituality. It was a historically embedded social force that ...

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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 ...

The death toll in last week’s terrorist attack on a mosque frequented by Sufi worshippers in Egypt’s northern Sinai region has risen to more than 300. No group has yet claimed responsibility for ...

As the world mourns the death of Muhammad Ali, some American adherents of the Islamic Sufi tradition are claiming spiritual kinship with the boxing great. But scholars say the assertion may be more ...

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 ...

Parveen Akhtar has received funding from the British Academy and the Economic and Social Research Council. When an Islamic State (IS) suicide bomber killed 88 people and wounded hundreds more at a ...

The target of the horrendous massacre in Egypt on Friday has been described as a Sufi mosque. More than 305 people were killed by suspected ISIS sympathizers. A lot of media outlets described Sufism ...

A famous Sufi singer was shot dead in Pakistan on Wednesday in an attack claimed by Islamic extremists. Two attackers on a motorcycle opened fire on Amjad Sabri's car while he was on his way to a ...