Dina Ezzat continues her walks with historian and guide Youssef Osama, this week through the graves of Sufi saints in Cairo “Die before you die,” the Sufis say, in a call for the death of the self or ...

In the face of rampant extremism, there has been renewed interest in the history and tenor of Islam as it has been practiced in the subcontinent. Sufism, with its values of love, tolerance, and ...

Sufism, the mystical path within Islam, like other inner traditions such as Yoga and Kabbalah, has both an element of philosophical esotericism and a dimension of practice that can more easily be ...

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 ...

The book Mysteries of the Sufi Path, launched yesterday electronically at the Shoman Foundation in Amman, represents a study which focuses on the history of Sufism in Jordan, through anthropological ...

In the realm of Sufi literature, a profound concept known as the Commanding Self, or Nafs-i-Ammara, reveals itself as a mysterious intermediary between objective reality and one's authentic self. As ...