Sufism, the mystical dimension of Islam, runs through South Asia as a deep spiritual ... the surrounding areas with historical and spiritual significance, but also maps a trajectory of philosophy ...

Importantly, the book provides a sense of Islamic spirituality and its persisting mystical tradition, strongly influenced by Sufism.

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The map locates the Albanian capital of Tirana ... which has many mostly underground followers of Sufi Islam, including some Bektashis, but views itself as the guardian of Shiite Islam against ...

Sufism is a movement within Islam that started in opposition to the increasing materialism and rigidity of orthodox Islam ...

Local media reported a series of politically and religiously motivated attacks in the weeks following ouster of Sheikh Hasina ...

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The Murid order, founded in Senegal in the latter decades of the nineteenth century, grew into a major Sufi order during the colonial period and is now among the most recognizable of the Sufi orders ...

Religious hardliners target Sufi shrines, minorities and culturally important places in Muslim-majority Bangladesh following ...

The problem is that the term “music,” representing some combination of instruments and voice, does not map well onto the Arabic term musiqa; musiqa is one kind of audio art in the Islamic legal ... or ...