Sufism’s mystic, revealed. By Christopher Knight . March 4, ... Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal,” a large and often fascinating exhibition at UCLA’s Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

Sufi Mystics Get A Modern Soundtrack The ancient spiritual practice of Sufism incorporates all kinds of activities, including music, to achieve a state in which the practitioner loses the ego.

More than 800 years ago, Hazrat Attar, a much-loved Sufi mystic hailing from medieval Khorasan (now northeast of Iran), wrote of the search for divine love and wisdom in his metaphorical poem ...

Kulshrestha’s mellifluous tones set the stage for a romantic exploration of Sufi mysticism at New Delhi’s serene Sunder Nursery from March 8th to 9th, 2025. The two-day festival took the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 encourage living fully in the present, with awareness and gratitude. Application: Let go of regrets about the past and anxieties about the future.

In Sufism and other Islamic mystic traditions, a Muslim's aim in life is to overcome this base aspect of the self, so that the true self or "ruh" (spirit) can connect with its creator, or God.