In some ways, the portly man with the long beard would have seemed familiar to his Orthodox Jewish grandparents. Praying and chanting in a Middle Eastern language, lecturing on spirituality and ...

TUNIS, March 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When a bulldozer razed the domed, century-old zawiya to the ground, turning the oldest Sufi place of study and worship in the Libyan coastal city of ...

The public prosecution has ordered the release of an Egyptian Sufi Sheikh on EGP50,000 bail pending an investigation into harassment accusations. The Sufi Sheikh, who proclaims himself as the leader ...

Giza security forces arrested Friday Sheikh Salah El-Din Al-Tijani, who proclaims himself as the leader of the "Tijani Sufi Order," following accusations of harassment. The arrest took place following ...

The passing of Sheikh Dahiru Usman Bauchi on November 26, 2025, at the age of 98, marks the end of an era for Nigeria's ...

Frager, an American psychology professor and sheikh of the Halveti-Jerrahi Sufi order, presents in this book a number of discrete but interconnected sohbets, or conversations, on a variety of ...

The Egyptian Public Prosecution Office in Giza Governorate has conducted extensive investigations with Sheikh Salah Eddin al-Tijani and his alleged victim “Khadija. Kh”, after police arrested Tijani ...

Ailing 79-year-old Sufi Sheikh Muftah Al-Amin Al-Biju has been forcibly disappeared since his arbitrary arrest from his home in Benghazi on 4 February 2024 amid an intensified crackdown on Sufi ...

Abandon by Pico Iyer Knopf, 360 pp., $24 PICO IYER, who mainly works as a writer for Time, comes to the topic of Sufism after a series of books that seem unlikely preparation. His “Video Night in ...

A Sufi sheikh has been shot dead at his home in a village in southeastern part of the Russian republic of Daghestan, RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service reports. Sirajudin Israfilov, 56, was imam of a ...