The Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis MTO, located on the outskirts of Paris, is the first museum exploring the art, heritage and spiritual traditions of Sufism, housed in a meticulously ...

THIS is with reference to the write-up ‘Guru Nanak, a grounded celestial bard’ (Nov 25) which talked about the Guru’s sufi teachings. Sufi thoughts existed long before Guru’s time.

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 ...

More than 80 mazars (shrines) and darbar sharifs (Sufi centres) were attacked by extremist groups across the country over the ...

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 ...

Sessions on Sufism were held on the second day of the 34th World Punjabi Conference in Lahore. The speakers emphasised that ...

T he Bhakti movement emerged between the 7th and 17th centuries. Like Sufism was a form of protest against the complexities of orthodox Islam, the Bhakti movement was a protest against the ...

‘The young’, the devoutly Catholic Zaehner stated, ‘are not interested in switching from one dogmatic monotheistic faith to another: hence they are little interested in Islam except when Islam itself ...

As they are all set to perform at AMI Arts Festival, we speak with Soumya about the art form and why he feels inclined towards Sufism. What are you performing at AMI Arts Festival? We are ...

Shahmaghsoudi School of Islamic Sufism in Reseda, staff arranged three large neatly-stacked piles of brand-new essential ...

Although the 58-year-old media proprietor has been vocal about reading the Bible and being a Christian in the past, she has also spent time speaking about Sufism lately. Last August, Winfrey ...