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I am a mirror set before your eyes And all who come before my splendor see Themselves, their own unique reality… Though you have struggled, wandered, travelled far, It is yourselves you see and ...

The Safavid Dynasty, a Golden Age in Iran, witnessed a cultural flowering under the charismatic Isma'il and and his son Tahmasp, the first two Shahs of the dynasty. This essay is a short history of ...

The Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis MTO, located on the outskirts of Paris, is the first museum exploring the art, heritage ...

Clashes took place outside a Tehran police station between police and members of the dervish minority Five Iranian security personnel have been killed in clashes with members of a Sufi Muslim ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

Thirty-eight people got lashes. Amnesty said more than 200 members of Iran's largest Sufi Muslim order, the Gonabadi dervishes, were sentenced to prison and lashes after taking part in peaceful ...

An Iranian member of parliament says Iran must now "test an atomic bomb ... with the length of its Islamic past and wealth of eminences and (sufi) spirituality, would fall into the trap set ...

He returned to Iran and worked with his friend, Sufi, in a stonecutting factory. Again, he was found and taken back to Afghanistan. He returned to Iran a third time. After four years in Iran ...