Reporting from Dubai, UAEReporting from Dubai, UAE — When some two dozen militants massacred at least 305 people in the Sinai Peninsula on Friday, they were targeting the Sufi community that worshiped ...

In its letter to the Board of Trustees of Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, USHMM, the Sufi group said that ...

The target of the horrendous massacre in Egypt on Friday has been described as a Sufi mosque. More than 305 people were killed by suspected ISIS sympathizers. A lot of media outlets described Sufism ...

African Journal of Gender and Religion, Vol. 30, No. 1 (July 2024), pp. 1-27 (27 pages) This article will tackle how African Muslim Women represented by Sudanese women, are undergoing specific ...

Dressed in white robes to symbolize purity and equality before God, followers from the Layene brotherhood commemorate the first public appearance of their founder Seydina Limamou Laye in 1884 at ...

Samanta is on the faculty in the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech. Here's a fact that has not been on the radar in the recent controversy about the proposed building of the Cordoba ...

LOS ANGELES (RNS) The rhythmic chanting of 15 “beloveds,” as they call themselves, ripples across a prayer room in a family home in the San Fernando Valley. They stand in a circle with their hands ...

Why does one choose a religion? Eleven people recount their spiritual journeys. Annika, 59, of Norwegian origin, has lived in ...

Sufi Islam is a small sect that is not politically active. And yet Sufi shrines have been repeatedly targeted by radical groups during upheavals... When radical Islamists lash out at cultural sites ...

Born Dilip Kumar, AR Rahman embraced Sufi Islam after his father's death. The composer had previously shared that a Hindu ...