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 ...

social and political relations between Salafis and Sufis, who represent two major scholarly movements which have been influential within Sunni Muslim societies. The debates between Salafi and Sufi ...

In one recent upload, clad in a pair of Gucci sneakers, she issued her usual disclaimer to audiences: that her work is merely a road map for how one might deal ... given to a spiritual guide in the ...

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī was a Persian Muslim astronomer. His work Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib, written in 964, included both textual descriptions and illustrations. The Persian polymath Al-Biruni wrote that ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said Sunday his country would transform the Tirana-based Bektashi Muslims, an Islamic Sufi order, into a sovereign state to promote ...

Speaking at a 3 December 2007 Kennan Institute lecture, Knysh analyzed political and religious movements in the Northern Caucasus through the prism of the ongoing conflict between two competing ...

The Bektashi Order is a mystic Muslim order founded in the Ottoman Empire (modern day Turkey) in the 13th century. It’s an offshoot of Sufism, a branch of Islam that focuses on spirituality and ...

Albania has announced plans to establish the 'Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order', which would become the world’s smallest country, a quarter of the size of Vatican City. The state will be ...

A group of young Afghans – both women and men – is coming together in the country’s war-torn capital to practice a mystical Sufi Islamic dance. Fahima Mirzaie, a 24-year-old student ...

an Islamic Sufi order, into a sovereign state to promote moderation, tolerance and peaceful coexistence. Speaking at the United Nations, Rama pointed out that Albania, a tiny Western Balkan ...