The RSS and it shadow outfits have lauded Sufi practices and tapped the Muslims in Kashmir but political parties in J&K ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

In recent years, the dominant image of islam in the minds of many Westerners has been one loaded with violence and shrouded with fear. The figures commanding global attention — be they al-Qaeda’s ...

In order to promote love and understanding between Muslims and others and to remove the misunderstandings about Islam that abound, it is important to highlight the spiritual and humane aspects of ...

Qawwali was introduced to the world in the thirteenth century, but qawwali gained worldwide prominence in the twentieth century because famous Qawwals such as Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Sabri ...

Our attitude towards Sufism determines the answer to the complex question of our identity in matters personal and political – our view of religious/secular other. Syed Moududi’s views helped determine ...

Sufism is mystical and ascetic form of Islam practiced by tens of millions of Muslims. But radical Islamists have taken to targeting Sufis in brutal attacks, such as the recent massacre in Egypt. A ...

An ISIS-affiliated extremist group operating out of Egypt has released ghastly images purporting to show the execution of two leading religious figures from Sinai Egypt. The 98-year-old blind Sufi, ...

Lawyer Farshid Yadollahi was 18 years old when he had a spiritual dream that led him on a search for the truth and resulted in his becoming a Sufi. Seventeen years later, Yadollahi says that whatever ...

Expansive is a good adjective to describe Aisha Khalid’s work. She draws our attention from the specific to the whole, from the local to the cosmic. The Aisha Khalid retrospective provides a wonderful ...

At the Sufi Coffee Shop in Mountain View, half-pound batches of coffee beans are roasted daily, and each cup of coffee is individually ground and dripped to order. Approximately 16 kinds of coffee are ...