Mohammad Nooraee knew exactly what he needed when Brandeis University students asked him to distill the essence of Sufism, an Islamic mystical tradition. Nooraee, director of the Nimatullahi Sufi ...

Mysticism is the pivotal point of Sufi poetry. The Sufi way is direct communion and absorption in the Supreme with sheer love and devotion. They believe that God is present in every human being but He ...

How did a 13th-century Sufi mystic from Central Asia become the most widely-read poet in the United States? This program mixes knowledgeable, in-depth conversations with evocative film segments to ...

“Give up the intellect for love and see in one brief moment all eternity,” said Persian Sufi master Hazrat Farid al-Din Attar (1145-1221) in his seminal work Manṭeq al-ṭayr (The Conference of the ...

(RNS) — Omid Safi's new book 'Radical Love' offers a reminder to Muslims and non-Muslims alike: You can't divorce Rumi's mystical poetry from Islam. (RNS) — Omid Safi’s latest project was a labor of ...

Before he became a world-famous poet and Sufi mystic, a religious scholar named Jalal ad-Din Rumi struggled with a feeling of inexplicable emptiness. Despite his thousands of admirers and disciples, ...

MUMBAI-Playback singer Harshdeep Kaur has released her new song ‘Maula Toh Puch’ along with Bismil. The track is a soul-stirring Punjabi love ballad that unfolds like an intimate conversation between ...

Sufi depicts romance in the purest form and in the most soulful way, feel music composers Gourov-Roshin. The duo has now collaborated with singer Danish Sabri to create a lilting Sufi romantic track, ...

Puranchand and Pyarelal Wadali are living examples of what actually makes for Sufi singing. Having shared the stage many a time with the queen of Sufi, Abida Parvin from Pakistan, Wadali brothers term ...

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