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Young Afghan woman teaches Sufi dance in Kabul for ‘inner peace’
Fahima Mirzaie set up a dance school for women in the Afghan capital last year, hoping to help her students fight depression and find inner peace in a ... Features -
Sufi leader dies in Iran hospital: Report
The leader of one of Iran’s largest Sufi sects, Noor Ali Tabandeh, died on Tuesday in a hospital in Tehran, the semi-official news agency ISNA ... Middle East -
Iran executes Sufi opposition member accused of running over police officers
Judicial sources in Iran said they upheld the death sentence of a Sufi opposition member Mohammad Reza Salas on Monday morning, after being accused ... Middle East -
Iranian woman shouts ‘Death to Khamenei’ in protest of activist executions
A video of a woman shouting “death to Khamenei” among protesters demonstrating against the execution of political activists in the streets ... Middle East -
Three Sufi protesters killed hours after being shot by Iranian forces
Iranian sources reported on Tuesday the death of three Gonabadi Sufis in the hospital hours after being shot in clashes with Iranian security forces ... Middle East -
Why is Iran persecuting followers of the Gonabadi Sufi order?
Iranian security forces besieged on Sunday the house of Noor Ali Tabandeh, one of the most prominent leaders of Shiite Sufism in the Iranian capital ... Features -
Sufis well-rooted in al-Rawda, but is there an all-out war on them?
Al-Rawda is around 20 kilometers way from West of Arish. The number of its citizens is around 2,000 families and most of them are from al-Sawarka ... Features -
Egypt mosque attack: Is Sufism a new target for terrorists in Sinai?
The magnitude of the attack that targeted worshippers in al-Rawda Mosque in North Sinai is not only measured by the number of lives it claimed, ... Features -
Suicide attack kills 18 in Pakistan
A suicide attacker blew himself up outside a Sufi shrine in southwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing 18 people and wounding at least 27 others, ... World News -
WATCH: Weird dance that is proving to be a controversial ritual in Algeria
Security forces in Mostaganem in Algeria, have summoned Belkacem Bennani, the chief of the Karkariya way – a dance representing Sufism ... Variety -
Why are Egyptian Sufis at loggerheads with the government?
The relationship between Sufis and the Egyptian government has over the years been generally smooth and this was mainly due to the fact that there was ... Features -
Mystery of missing Indian Sufi clerics solved after being traced to Sindh
The two missing Indian Sufi clerics from Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah have been finally traced and have reached Karachi, according to latest ... Features -
Pakistan arrests militants over murder of famed singer
Pakistani police have arrested two militants accused of assassinating one of the country’s best known Sufi musicians Gulf -
Sufi singer shot dead by extremists in Pakistan
Two attackers on a motorcycle opened fire on Amjad Sabri’s car while he was on his way to a local TV appearance Gulf -
Bangladesh Sufi Muslim killed in suspected Islamist attack
ISIS and a Bangladeshi branch of Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for several of the killings News -
ISIS in Iraq beheads man it accuses of ‘sorcery’
Some residents who spoke to AFP said the executed man was a Sunni who had recently joined the police in Samarra Middle East -
ISIS destroys Prophet Sheth shrine in Mosul
ISIS militants have also tried to destroy Iraq’s historical icon Al-Hadba Minerat in Mosul Middle East -
Cavalli ad featuring May Jagger with H-like symbol upsets Sufi Muslims
Sufi Muslims said the offesive ad “degrades” and “cheapens” one of its holy symbols Fashion and beauty -
Sorcery and spirits at Morocco Sufi festival
The festival of Sidi Ali Ben Hamdouch in the Moroccan village of Sidi Ali, near Meknes, brings Moroccans from far and wide to venerate a 17th century ... Perspective -
Dervish skirts whirl in Turkey
The dervishes are adepts of Sufism, a mystical form of Islam that preaches tolerance and a search for understanding. Those who whirl, like planets ... Perspective -
Steeped in ancient mysticism, passion of Pakistani Sufis infuriates Taliban
Yielding to the hypnotic beat of drums and the intoxicating scent of incense, the woman danced herself into a state of trance, laughing and shaking ... Features
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