For centuries, traditional Sufi chanting of the Near East has been used as a way of expressing religious devotion. Sufi music has also been appreciated in concerts and films in a form that is ...

The Cairo Opera House will organize a Ramadan evening hosted by the al-Hadra Sufi Chanting Troupe on Monday, 9:30 pm at the open theater. The night guarantees a special spiritual experience embodied ...

Feb. 26, 7pm - 9pm and Feb. 27, 11:30am - 5pm and Feb. 28, 11:30 - 5pm Adnan is internationally known for his "Rapid Method", a teaching method always adapted to the people, place and time, which uses ...

Enter Baghdad's leading Sufi mosque on a recent evening and the first thing that catches your eye is a man, sitting cross-legged in a corner of the courtyard. The blanket in front of him is filled ...

BARZANJA, IRAQ - The dervishes swayed with the drumbeat, flinging their long hair and chanting “Allah, Allah.” Nearby others were showing, as one put it, their “passion for God”: one drove a skewer ...

“As soon as he started to grow, he saw us all whirling, his uncles and cousins. When he first started to walk when he was about one year old, he started to whirl. I started to teach him how to move ...

Prolific chanter Amer El-Touni, founder of the Sufi chanting group Egyptian Mawlawiyah, died Sunday in Cairo at the age of 57. For decades, El-Touni’s name has been synonymous with the mystic Islamic ...

PRIZREN, Kosovo – For an Islamic dervish order in southern Kosovo, it's time for the annual celebration to mark the new year, the birthday of the sect's founder and spring. That means holding a ...