Unlike more conservative denominations of Islam, the Bektashi faithful -- men ... But for Baba Mondi and his Sufi followers, the future is brimming with possibilities. "Bektashism has been and ...

A Sufi pilgrim dances at the shrine of Lal Shahbaz ... belonged to a cast of mystics who consolidated Islam's hold on this region; today, Pakistan's two most populous provinces, Sindh and Punjab ...

AR Rahman, born Dileep Kumar Rajagopala in Madras, faced early hardships with the death of his father. A transformative ...

Historian William Dalrymple journeys to Morocco, Turkey, Syria and Pakistan to explore whirling dervishes, Qawwali singing and other forms of music sacred in Sufism, the branch of Islam that ...

A New History from Muhammad to the Present’ (Princeton Univ., May), the historian chronicles the religion’s 1,400-year evolution through profiles of figures who showcase its diversity.

The Taliban follow an ultra-conservative Sunni interpretation of Islam. Yet approximately 10 to 15 percent of Afghans are Shia, and there are a significant number of Sufi, small numbers of Ahmadis ...

The ritual of whirling dervishes is observed by Sufi Muslims in honor of the 13th century poet Rumi. Though commonly associated with Turkey, NPR notes that there "are now many Sufi dervish orders ...

a Sufi group has stirred a debate by asking people not to donate to groups promoting political Islam. Peer Syed Khalid Naqiulhussaini, national president of National Sufi Sant Organisation ...

NEW DELHI – A canopy of thousands of fairy lights twinkled above, each one a pretend star in the late afternoon sun as hundreds of Muslims, seated in neat rows, waited to begin their iftar break.

Last year, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama announced plans to establish a sovereign Muslim microstate within the country's borders run by the Sufi sect with roughly 100,000 members.