The ancient spiritual practice of Sufism incorporates all kinds of activities, including music, to achieve a state in which the practitioner loses the ego. Riad Abdel-Gawad creates new Sufi music ...

Hazrat Ibn Arabi, the Sufi mystic, poet, and philosopher whose cosmological teachings became the dominant worldview in many parts of the Muslim world, extensively used the mirror metaphor.

Writer and poet Saumya Kulshrestha launched Delhi’s Sufi Heritage Festival by reciting a verse from Amrita Pritam’s poignant poem, Main Tainu Fir Milaangi. Main tainu fir milaangi/ Kithe? Kis ...

Nearly a year ago British author William Dalrymple set off on a world tour with Sufi mystics and stoned Bengali musicians to promote his new book, Nine Lives. He tells the story of his hilarious ...

Sections on work as prayer and the mystical potency of writing are followed by examples of clothing worn by followers of one of Bamba’s chief disciples, Sheikh Ibra Fall.

Ten Modern Mystics and Their Extraordinary Lives” is an impressive work of participatory journalism. Pintak, “an avid student of the perennial truths at the core of the world’s religions,” not only ...

Violinist Vijay Gupta's 'When the Violin' pairs Reena Esmail's piece based on 14th century Sufi poetry with Bach's 18th century Partita No. 2 with Indian dance.

Sufi mystics have celebrated the journey of self-transformation to seek the Almighty. They have found deep messages of the Almighty in the simplest activities of life. Sayyid Abdullah Shah Qadri ...

Sama’: Music and the Sufi Mystical Experience There is probably no Sufi practice that has historically been more evident and more controversial than sama’, or listening to music as a means of altering ...

Rumi: Why show about the Sufi mystic could be Turkish television's next Ertugrul The 13th century Persian poet and Islamic scholar is renowned worldwide for his poems about divine love ...

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 ...

Sufi's Mediterranean Grill & Bar is a new restaurant in Germantown featuring Persian and Middle Eastern cuisine.