“Give up the intellect for love and see in one brief moment all eternity,” said Persian Sufi master Hazrat Farid al-Din Attar (1145-1221) in his seminal work Manṭeq al-ṭayr (The Conference of the ...
It’s March 24, the final Monday night of Ramadan, and Barzakh Cafe — a cozy venue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn — is packed for a qawwali, the Sufi devotional music tradition that originated in ...
Affan Yesvi is a Sufi scholar, columnist, and entrepreneur. As a descendant of the 11th-century Sufi saint, Khawaja Ahmed Yasawi - a mystic, poet, and founder of the Yasaviyya Sufi order in Central ...
From the 9th century onwards, Sufism has encapsulated Islamic spirituality. This is the loving heart of Islam, still alive, thriving and widely influential today. It is not the Islam of ...
Sufism, known in Arabic as tasawwuf, represents the inner, mystical dimension of Islam, tracing its origins to the earliest centuries of the Muslim community. Emerging alongside legal, theological and ...