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 one’s state of consciousness. Sama’ ...

Qawwali is a form of devotional music that expresses the mystical Sufi practice of Islam in South Asia, mainly in areas of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. The term qawwali comes from the Arabic word ...

Sufis celebrate the birthday of Prophet Muhammad's granddaughter Zeinab A massacre at a mosque in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula last week that claimed more than 300 lives has focused attention on Sufi ...

Anjali Chakra and Sufi Malik shot to internet fame over five years ago with a viral photoshoot. They broke up this year after Malik cheated on her partner. Sufi Malik, the Pakistani-origin woman ...

Wright, Theodore P. 1994. Can there be a melting pot in Pakistan? Interprovincial marriage and national integration. Contemporary South Asia, Vol. 3, Issue. 2, p. 131.

This September, the first ever museum devoted to Sufi art and culture is set to open in the Paris suburb of Chatou. Sufism can generally be understood as the mystical aspect, or dimension ...

Folks don’t understand them and so on. In the book Ruminate – The Sufi Saint on Mastering Life and Business, Hrishikesh Datar makes a passionate plea, using Sufi saint poet Rumi’s words ...

Sherry Sufi Dr Sherry Sufi was a Liberal Senate candidate for WA at the 2022 Federal Election. He is Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Australian Way of Life at the Institute of Public Affairs.

Influencers Sufi Malik and Anjali Chakra shocked the internet this week when they announced they had called off their wedding ...

In a compromise with urban Muslim warriors, the boy converted to Islam and was placed under Sufi tutelage. When he became Sultan Jalaluddin Muhammad (r. 1418–1433), he reoriented the Bengal ...