theology. Although the overwhelming majority of Sufis, both pre-modern and modern, remain adherents of Sunni Islam, certain strands of Sufi thought transferred...

approach, Shah gave an overview of Sufi concepts, with potted biographies of some of the most important Sufis over the ages, including Rumi and Ibn al-Arabi...

Sufi music refers to the devotional music of the Sufis, inspired by the works of Sufi poets like Rumi, Hafiz, Bulleh Shah, Amir Khusrow, and Khwaja Ghulam...

and smaller rooms on either side. Traditionally, the Sufi lodge was state-sponsored housing for Sufis. Their primary function is to provide them with a...

centuries, mainly because of the similarities between the extreme, ascetic Sufis (fakirs and dervishes) and the Shamans of the traditional Turco-Mongol religion...

dance by non-Sufis, including dancers outside the Islamic world. As an order, the whirling Dervishes were founded by mystic poet Rumi in the 13th century...

the concept of the relationship between God and the universe is still actively debated both among Sufis and between Sufis and non-Sufi Muslims. The mystical...

countries. The Republic of Turkey banned all Sufi orders and abolished their institutions in 1925, after Sufis opposed the new secular order. The Islamic...

Sufi rock or Sufi folk rock is a subgenre of rock music that combines rock with classical Islamic Sufi music traditions. It emerged in the early 1990s...

This list article contains names of notable people commonly considered as Sufis or otherwise associated with Sufism. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R...

Salafi–Sufi relations refer to the religious, social and political relations between Salafis and Sufis, who represent two major scholarly movements which...

Islamic school of thought, and by the Jamestown Foundation as one of the "active leaders" of Jamaat-e-Islami in the 1980s. Sufi Muhammad, born in 1933 in Maidan...

Abdalqadir as-Sufi (born Ian Stewart Dallas; 1930 – 1 August 2021) was a Scottish Muslim leader and author. He was Shaykh of Instruction, leader of the Darqawi-Shadhili-Qadiri...

(innermost heart) is the seat of tauhīd (Sūra 3:190). The Sufis often add the element of sirr, the innermost part of the heart in which the divine revelation...

Sindhi and Urdu. Sufi doctrines and organizations provided more freedom to literature than did the court poetry of the period. The Sufis borrowed elements...

the inward search for The God and shuns materialism. About 60% Muslims in Pakistan regard themselves as followers of Sufi saints. Most of the Sufis in...

Hadith corpus, Sufi literature) into vernacular languages helped the momentum of Islamization in India. Particularly in rural areas, Sufis helped Islam...

Sufi studies is a particular branch of comparative studies that uses the technical lexicon of the Islamic mystics, the Sufis, to exemplify the nature of...

celebrated by Sufis in Afghanistan. The various belongings of Muhammad such as Moo e Mubarak (Muhammad's Hair), Khirka Sharif, are sacred things for Sufis in Afghanistan...

recognized so I created the creature". Islamic Sufis describe the Divine Descent and the creation of universe and humankind in the following stages, when...

Amir Sufi is the Bruce Lindsay Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He was awarded the 2017...

Sufi Zafar is a physicist and electrical engineer known for her research on CMOS-based biosensors. She completed her PhD in physics from Syracuse University...

as Sheikh Sufi, was a 19th-century Benadiri scholar, poet, reformist and astrologist. Sheikh Sufi was born in Mogadishu, where he founded the Qadiriyyah...

sacrament. Sufis often are members of various Sufi orders.[citation needed] The non-exclusiveness of Sufi orders has consequences for the social extension...

A Sufi and a Killer is the debut studio album by Gonjasufi (Sumach Ecks). It was released by Warp on March 8, 2010. The album was produced by Flying Lotus...

Sufiya Sufi (born 1987) is an Indian sprint athlete from Ajmer, Rajasthan. She is the first female runner to complete Manali to Leh Ultramarathon in 2021...

Shah Foundation The Chisholme Institute (The Beshara School of Esoteric Education) Sufism Reoriented The Sufi Way Islam portal List of Sufis Hanif, N. (2002)...

first book on the subject, The Sufis. Whereas The Sufis eschewed academic norms such as footnotes and an index, The Way of the Sufi provided a full section...

Poem of the Sufi Way, or Nazm al-suluk, is an Arabic poem by the Sufi mystic and scholar, Shayk Umar ibn al-Farid. An exact date of the poem's writing...

Sufi or Soofi or Sowfi (Persian: صوفي) in Iran may refer to: Sufi, Kurdistan, a village in Kurdistan Province, Iran Sufi, West Azerbaijan, a village in...