How did Bosnia become Muslim? This Kings and Generals animated history documentary explores Bosnia’s transformation under ...

The Al-Kharrat family in Syria has kept the tradition of Sema, or the dance of the whirling dervishes, alive for decades.

Adherents say they are drawn to Sufism for its intense spiritualism. An “intoxicated state of love and union with God” is how it’s described by Colman, who embraced this mystical path eight ...

Celebrating World Music Day, the city presents 'Jo Dooba So Paar,' a theatrical performance exploring Sufi mysticism through ...

Sufism is the mystical path of Islam. It is the inner, meditative branch of the religion that's found in many different forms, in many different countries, and seldom makes news like its Sunni and ...

In his letter, Laham also suggested promoting Sufism—a mystical branch of Islam—as a mechanism to alter the violent behavior of terrorist actors. The inclusion of Sufism in Laham’s plea for military ...

As defined by these early thinkers, Sama` may relate to the spiritual progress of a Muslim mystic or Sufi adept in one of three ways: (1) it may be totally excluded as inappropriate to Islamic ...

Sama is steeped in symbolism. The whirling dervishes rotate from right to left, emulating the movement of stars and planets. The ritual dress, the music played on symbolic instruments like the ney or ...

The mirror metaphor is ubiquitous in Sufi writings and Sufi mystics used it communicate diverse ideas. One way of using this metaphor was to represent the idea that knowledge is held in and can be ...

Sufism offers seekers various paths to commune with the divine A profound veil of mysticism and devotion envelops the intricate landscape of Islamic spirituality. In that realm, Sufism emerges as ...

(credit: JCFA) Sufism is often described from the outside as Islam’s version of mysticism, divided into four main schools of thought called “tariqas” or paths. Rooted in eighth- and ninth ...

In each part of the world where Islam has spread and taken root, the religion has adapted to its context in geographic, cultural and theological terms. Sufism, the mystical dimension of Islam, runs ...