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 ...

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 ...

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Attackers bulldozed a Sufi Muslim shrine and mosque in the Libyan capital on Saturday, one day after hardliners razed a similar shrine and library elsewhere in the country. It ...

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 ...

(The Conversation ) — A new attack on a Sufi mosque in Egypt drives home the hatred of Islamic State and other some other Muslim groups for the Sufi traditions of inclusiveness and mystical worship.

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 ...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Every Friday afternoon people flock to a small mosque in one of the alleys in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City. They are there not only to perform the five daily ...

From the 9th century onwards, Sufism has encapsulated Islamic spirituality. This is the loving heart of Islam, still alive, thriving and widely influential today. It is not the Islam of ...