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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rumi's entire exalted philosophy is not only the kernel of Sufism but also the essence of humanity. In fact, Rumi's ...

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 ...

Both ignore the impact of Sufism and the syncretic traditions of medieval religious movements. Ahmed argues that Tharoor is ...

From nomadic tribes to the Kazakh khanate - the Musée Guimet’s new exhibition explores 5,000 years of Kazakhstan's history in ...

Family, friends and followers of Fethullah Gülen have gathered to pay respects to the influential Turkish spiritual leader ...

Aaron Spevack specializes in Islamic Intellectual History, with an emphasis on 13th-19th-century law, theology, and Sufism and their reception in contemporary Muslim communities. He has published two ...

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, ...

The ‘Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat’ (EBSB) club of Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology (DCRUST), Murthal, ...