The Sufi dance originates from the Mevlevi Order in Konya, Turkey, founded by the followers of Jalaluddin Rumi. A ...

Ten people were killed when a gunman opened fire on a Sufi shrine in Afghanistan’s northern Baghlan province, an interior ...

The spiritual aim of the sufi is to have a personal experience of the divine through purity, affection and compassion, says ...

A gunman opened fire on a group of Sufis during a weekly ritual at a shrine in Afghanistan's Nahrin district, resulting in ...

A district court has admitted a petition which claims that a Shiva temple lies underneath the shrine of the revered Sufi ...

A Bangladeshi mystic sect promoting religious tolerance has cancelled their popular music festival after Islamist threats, ...

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Milad Milani, University of Sydney and the University of Western Sydney, Australia Sufism formed one of the cultures of resistance which has existed in the social fabric of Persia since antiquity.