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In Islam, Sufism or other such spiritual movements are more about the lighter spiritual aspect of Islam. Islam is a great religion like any other great [...]

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We spoke with Thompson at length on a variety of topics, including his time with Fairport Convention, his work with Nick Drake, Sufism and his craft. [...]

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Nothing to get excited about unlike music and Sufism. He pulsates with joy, eyes sparkle with reverence as he holds forth on the subject in the next one and [...]

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One moment, it is all enlightenment as he talks of Sufism, Lalan Fakir, and those days when we lived in harmony. The next moment, he's is at a loss for [...]

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By virtue of its focus on religious practices, Sufism, a type of Islamic, mysticism, is a trend that does not aim at intervening in politics or public affairs unlike other emerging Islamic parties in Morocco. [...]

According to Si Hamza Boubakeur “Sufism itself is not a theological-juridical school, nor a schism, nor a sect, since puts itself above any obedience. It’s primarily an Islamic method of inner improvement, of balance, it’s a fount of fervour intensely lived and gradually ascending. Far form being an [...]

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Sufism was not known in the time of the Prophet (may Allah raise his rank and grant him peace) or his Companions, nor was it well known in the first three generations after them. It first appeared in Basrah in Iraq, where some people [...]

Reflecting recent global developments, the second edition of this illuminating introduction to Islamic history expands its coverage of the Qur'an, Sufism, and Muslim views on human rights, including the rights of women. [...]

Many websites that deal with the subject of Moroccan Sufism do so in French, and this is one of the first to do so in English. The author of the website himself is a descendant and devotee of famous Sufi shaykhs of this region, [...]

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Itzchak Weismann is the best authority on Sufism in Syria during the 19th and 20th centuries. He is a professor at the University of Haifa and has written, Taste of Modernity: Sufism, Salafiyya, and Arabism in Late Ottoman Damascus [...]

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By Alex Rodriguez, *Blasts kill 8 at Sufi shrine in Pakistan* - Los Angeles Times - Los Angeles, CA, USA. Friday, October 9, 2010 No one claims responsibility for the attacks in Karachi, which injured 65. Militants have targeted shrines [...]

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I'd heard Qawwali before I got interested in Sufism. In 1967, I wouldn't say you had to do it, but it was a very viable option to take sitar lessons. So I was in a class with Andy Summers from the Police. We used to go every Sunday for [...]

Sufism is much misunderstood by both Muslims and non-Muslims alike. While Muslims think that Sufis are innovators in the religion and qabr-parast (grave worshipper) and therefore unacceptable, non-Muslims think that Sufism offers a [...]

Sufism arose from within Islam in the 8th-9th centuries CE as an ascetic movement. The movement may have been given (or taken on) the name Sufism because of the course wool [...]

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By APP, *President strongly condemns twin blasts in Karachi* - Dawn.Com - Pakistan Thursday, October 7, 2010 Islamabad: President Asif Ali Zardari has strongly condemned the twin suspected suicide blasts near the shrine of Sufi saint [...]

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Sufism is fixing the gaze at One and living towards One. The meaning of Sufism is to put down what is in your head and to spare what is in your hand and not to shake when calamities befall you. Holding a grudge is heresy and attributing [...]

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I've been meaning to write about Sufism for a while now, for it is the only branch of Islam that has always intrigued me, simply because it focuses not so much on literal religious dogmas, but rather on the discipline of introspection [...]

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Sufism isn't just something you learn from books purcahsed at the Theosophical Bookshop. It is about experience. And it is something you cannot learn without a teacher. Sufism is also the highest form of Islamic orthodoxy. [...]

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However, after decline of power and onslaught of western colonialism, Sufism lost its original thrust and vigour and degenerated into superstitious practices, amulates and charms and Sufis also encouraged that. [...]

In the Spring, I took a weekend seminar in Sufism. I needed an extra unit to graduate and thought, why not? I’ve always tried to be open-minded when it comes to religion since I don’t participate in any organized one myself. I think back to my experience every now and then because I felt the breathi [...]

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Feisal Abdul Rauf of the Cordoba Initiative is one of America's leading thinkers of Sufism, the mystical form of Islam, which in terms of goals and outlook couldn't be farther from the violent Wahhabism of the jihadists. [...]

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The mausoleum of Sheikh Safi, who also founded a Sufism center, is located in the city of Ardebil. The mausoleum consists of many sections that have served [...]

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Talk on Moroccan Sufism in Rabat. Faouzi Skali will be presenting a lecture on Sufism and Society at 21h30 tomorrow, Tuesday 31 August at the Villa des Arts in Rabat. Skali (above) is a well-known anthropologist and Sufi scholar, [...]

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In subsequent visits to this seat of the old Moghul Empire, I have, among other things, been inclined to look more seriously at Sufism – that mystical, intellectual and open-minded dimension of Islam, which may, as Dalrymple opines, [...]