Amid a string of terrorist attacks in recent years, Russia has ramped up the crackdown on Batal Hajji, an Islamic sufi order ...

Fasting is half the prayer, the other half is patience,” said Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya (1238–1325), the revered Sufi saint.

In the early 13th century, Hazrat Amir Khusrau the legendary poet, composer, inventor, linguist, historian and scholar, wrote Qissa-ye Chahār Darvēsh (The Tale of Four Dervishes), known as Bāgh-o ...

A Srinagar court ordered four men, guilty of drinking and causing public nuisance, to perform community service instead of ...

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Hence, the discipline of history becomes a tool of colonising and resistant to the demands of the colonised. The Pirs Pagaro ...

A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond: In Senegal's capital city Dakar, Muslims belonging to the Layene Sufi order make their way to evening prayers on ...

The Syattariyah Sufi order uses a different method to determine the date of Eid al-Fitr from what is commonly used by Muslims ...