Reporting from Dubai, UAEReporting from Dubai, UAE — When some two dozen militants massacred at least 305 people in the Sinai Peninsula on Friday, they were targeting the Sufi community that worshiped ...
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 ...
In its letter to the Board of Trustees of Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, USHMM, the Sufi group said that ...
African Journal of Gender and Religion, Vol. 30, No. 1 (July 2024), pp. 1-27 (27 pages) This article will tackle how African Muslim Women represented by Sudanese women, are undergoing specific ...
Dressed in white robes to symbolize purity and equality before God, followers from the Layene brotherhood commemorate the first public appearance of their founder Seydina Limamou Laye in 1884 at ...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Every Friday afternoon people flock to a small mosque in one of the alleys in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City. They are there not only to perform the five daily ...
CAIRO – An international rights group says Muslim Sufi places of worship face increasing attacks in Libya. Thursday's Human Rights Watch statement says two historic Sufi mosques were attacked in ...
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 ...
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 ...
In recent years, the dominant image of islam in the minds of many Westerners has been one loaded with violence and shrouded with fear. The figures commanding global attention — be they al-Qaeda’s ...
Why does one choose a religion? Eleven people recount their spiritual journeys. Annika, 59, of Norwegian origin, has lived in ...
Born Dilip Kumar, AR Rahman embraced Sufi Islam after his father's death. The composer had previously shared that a Hindu ...