The spiritual aim of the sufi is to have a personal experience of the divine through purity, affection and compassion, says ...

Milad Milani, University of Sydney and the University of Western Sydney, Australia Sufism formed one of the cultures of resistance which has existed in the social fabric of Persia since antiquity.

In Islam, this tradition is generally referred to as Sufism or tasawwuf. The term Sufism is of German coinage. In 1821, a Latin work by FAG Tholuck, a German professor of divinity, introduced the ...

In the early days of Sufism, practitioners faced a dilemma: to practice and defend sama` was to assert the supremacy of the love relationship over all other religious obligations. At the same time, as ...

Ultimately, 'Sufism and Jihad in Modern Senegal' presents the reader with a new portrait of a society that has used its notion of modernity to adapt and incorporate further historical changes into its ...

Sufism is a mystic religious practice within Islam, emphasising a personal, spiritual journey towards a state of inner purification under the guidance of a master. Experience and wisdom are ...

Often described as Islamic mysticism, Sufism emphasises the inner search for God and the renunciation of worldly matters. Sufis regularly visit the shrines of the "Ahl al-Bayt" (the family of the ...

Saraf Ali Bhat, a Kashmiri artist, is on a mission to revive Sufism for younger generations. Through his soulful rabab ...

What the world has come to understand as Sufism corresponds to the Arabic word Tasawwuf – the mystical branch of Islam that focuses on spirituality, purification, and asceticism. Most scholars ...

Her scholarly interests include medieval and early modern Middle East, social and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman-Safavid borderlands, Sufism, nonconformist religious movements, ...

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