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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 ...
What was once confined within the walls of select dargahs has moved into films, night clubs, rock festivals and parties. Sufi music is everywhere today. "When someone sings Damadam mast kalandar on ...
Abida Parveen, born in 1954 in Larkana, is not just a name but an institution in the world of Sufi music. From an early age, her voice had begun garnering appreciation in her hometown, but it was her ...
A deep betrayal marked the turning point for “Nasruddin,” the American jihadist turned Sufi mystic. His parents had come from Afghanistan but led a secular life, and Nasruddin didn’t confront the ...
As the world mourns the death of Muhammad Ali, some American adherents of the Islamic Sufi tradition are claiming spiritual kinship with the boxing great. But scholars say the assertion may be more ...
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 ...
It's one o'clock in the morning and the night is pounding with hypnotic rhythms, the air thick with the smoke of incense, laced with dope. I'm squeezed into a corner of the upper courtyard at the ...
What was once confined within the walls of select dargahs has moved into films, night clubs, rock festivals and parties. Sufi music is everywhere today. "When someone sings Damadam mast kalandar on ...