The most important practice for Sufis is "dhikr" (remembrance of God). It typically involves reciting God's divine names, verses from the Koran, or sayings of the prophet in order to glorify God.

There is no word in English to describe Sufis, so they have been called mystics, meaning people who have a mystery about them ...

It was here that Rumi, who founded the Mevlevi, or a Sufi Order, originated this dance of whirling and circling while ...

Qawwali is a form of devotional music that expresses the mystical Sufi practice of Islam in South Asia, mainly in areas of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. The term qawwali comes from the Arabic word ...

Sufi influence on architecture has found beauty ... The practice of any form of art can evolve to the level where it becomes a form of dhikr, the art of remembering the Divine.

There is probably no Sufi practice that has historically been more evident and more controversial than sama’, or listening to music as a means of altering one’s state of consciousness. Sama’ ...

Abida Parveen, born in 1954 in Larkana, is not just a name but an institution in the world of Sufi music. From an early age, her voice had begun garnering appreciation in her hometown, but it was ...

Anjali Chakra and Sufi Malik shot to internet fame over five years ago with a viral photoshoot. They broke up this year after Malik cheated on her partner. Sufi Malik, the Pakistani-origin woman ...

Upon catching sight today in the synagogues of Safed or Jerusalem of the white-clad, bearded kabbalists, engrossed in their meditations, one is unavoidably struck by the similarity in appearance with ...

Folks don’t understand them and so on. In the book Ruminate – The Sufi Saint on Mastering Life and Business, Hrishikesh Datar makes a passionate plea, using Sufi saint poet Rumi’s words ...

The disciples are called Murids. Sufis have practices that go above and beyond those mandatory for all Muslims. A central practice is Dhikr which is meditative contemplation of God, individually ...