The al Rawdah Sufi mosque is known as the birthplace of an important Sufi cleric.
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The Light of Guidance Center for Sufi Studies in New York City is open to the public, and Zen master and Sufi Murshid Samuel L. Lewis's Sufi Ruhaniat International operates locations throughout the country.
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Adherents of Sufi Islam believe in mysticism and nonviolence, and Sufi saints are credited with spreading Islam throughout South Asia.
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ISIS considers Sufis to be heretics, and in Syria and Iraq, they have destroyed Sufi shrines and bulldozed or dynamited the tombs of Sufi saints.
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First, ISIS considers Sufis to be heretics, making the Sufi mosque a legitimate target in the eyes of ISIS, even though all worshippers probably weren't Sufi.
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First, ISIS considers Sufis to be heretics, making the Sufi mosque a legitimate target in the eyes of ISIS, even though all worshipers probably weren't Sufi.
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But the Taliban and other Muslim militant groups spurn Sufi shrines and have often attacked Sufi mosques and shrines, accusing devotees of being heretics or apostates.
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"They threatened him not to hold Sufi gatherings, and last week, they came on motorbikes and asked residents not to participate in Sufi rituals," Darwish said.
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But even if more sites are restored, Sufi communities cannot resume their traditional activities until "the law is enforced" and Sufi cultural sites are protected, said sheikh Bin Hamel.
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This is where Mr. Bolinder and other members took their "Sufi promise," a pledge of allegiance to their teacher and God in a formal ceremony, in return receiving their Sufi names.
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Announcements boomed from surrounding mosques at the time calling for a Sufi spiritual leader to be killed, said Sahlan Khalil Rahman, secretary of a trust that oversees a group of Sufi mosques.
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When Gaddafi took power in 1969, he "wanted to root out Sufism" because the regime of his predecessor, King Idris, leader of the Sanusi Sufi brotherhood, was underpinned by Sufi structures, said Pack.
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Yet another narrated the travels of a medieval Sufi mystic.
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Five years after his "coming out as a Sufi," he said, his parents are supportive, and his father has even taken a Sufi course on Jesus, who appears as a prophet in the Quran.
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Today, "while there are few Libyans who are still formally participating in Sufi orders, traditional Libyan cultural practices and folk customs embrace certain Sufi traditions," said Jason Pack of the D.C.-based Middle East Institute.
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Mohamed Faraj Mohamed, chairman of the GNA Department of Antiquities, said that Sufi heritage is an important aspect of Libyan heritage and authorities are in the process of documenting national historical monuments, including Sufi sites.
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Today, Nizamuddin remains one of South Asia's most admired Sufi saints.
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Sufi Islam has tens of millions of followers in South Asia.
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The week before, it was a Sufi Muslim leader, up north.
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Mr. Sufi said that shrapnel struck his cousin in the abdomen.
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He had been prominent in the Sufi movement in his country.
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Four months before, ISIS murdered 52 people at a Sufi shrine.
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Sufi scholars and intellectuals in the Hijaz like the architect Sami Angawi, who documented the destruction of archaeological and religious sites in Mecca, are reluctantly tolerated, but any public display of Sufi rituals is still prohibited.
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In addition to the attack on the shrine in Pakistan in February, the Islamic State bombed a Sufi place of worship in Baluchistan in 2016, and has carried out targeted assassinations of Sufi clerics, including in Egypt.
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My Sufi friend texts me with his reflections on his meditation practice.
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"I'm not afraid of the terrorists," says Sufi Imam Ahmed Reza Faruqi.
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They are also shown blowing up what they describe as Sufi shrines.
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Shahidullah calls himself a pir, a term for a Sufi spiritual guide.
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Before he disappeared, Hasan, the self-styled Sufi wanderer, expressed Xinjiang's plight.
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"Most Sufi masters will say that annihilation takes a lifetime," said Aslan.
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Sufi shrines and mosques have been repeatedly targeted in the country's northwest.
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But having a Sufi name makes him part of a spiritual community.
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The mosque is known as the birthplace of an important Sufi cleric.
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At a rally near a Sufi community, his followers came wielding swords.
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His father often played the tabla and sang songs of Sufi poetry.
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Official Chechen ideology is a mix of traditionalism, Sufi Islam and Putinism.
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An attack on a Sufi shrine alone killed more than 80 people.
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RUMI'S SECRETThe Life of the Sufi Poet of LoveBy Brad Gooch377 pp.
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A week earlier, a Muslim Sufi spiritual leader was found hacked to death.
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Taner Erguder sits at the desk of his Sufi and traditional paintings store.
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Qawwali is a form of passionate, devotional Sufi music, specifically from South Asia.
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Islamic State has targeted Sufi and Shi'ite Muslims in other countries like Iraq.
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LSD and other psychedelics, orgy, dancing (the New Sufi and the Hare Krishna),
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One attack at a Sufi shrine in southern Sindh province killed 90 people.
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Al Rawdah mosque is known as the birthplace of an important Sufi cleric.
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Islamic State has targeted Sufi Muslims and Shi'ite in other countries like Iraq.
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His tomb was draped in the green satin common to Sufi holy sites.
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RUMI'S SECRET: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love, by Brad Gooch.
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Sufi Muslims wafted about in colorful robes, mixing with people singing Christian hymns.
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The parallel between this early Sufi icon and her contemporary devotee isn't perfect.
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But the dancing also reflects more general Middle Eastern motifs like Sufi whirling.
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A California-based couple named Sufi Malik and Anjali Chakra met on Tumblr.
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"Sufi helps me slow down, prioritize, and be mindful when I'm overworked, and I help Sufi believe in herself and jump in when she has new projects and opportunities but doesn't have the confidence to take that first step," Chakra said.
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Qawwali has flourished in the shrines of Sufi saints that are dotted across Pakistan.
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Different words, same thing My well is Islam, and in particular, the Sufi tradition.
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Fars news agency reported that the driver was a member of the Sufi sect.
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The family, from the Sufi Muslim sect, said they had suffered under the jihadists.
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Many believe Bifatima Dualetova to be one of the last Sufi dervishes in Kazakhstan.
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"They believe Sufi shrines are the most egregious expression of that shirk," he said.
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An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of a Sufi Muslim brotherhood.
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Last November, militants also struck a Sufi mosque in the region, killing 305 people.
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It has a storied Sufi-anticolonial history, and is even believed to have aphrodisiac powers.
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Earlier this month, a 65-year-old Sufi Muslim spiritual leader was hacked to death.
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"Julia," and a 1983 live version of "Haq Ali Ali Moula Ali" by legendary Sufi
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A state of emergency was declared in Bahawalpur, Punjab provincial government spokesman Salman Sufi said.
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Hundreds were massacred in attacks on a Sufi mosque in Egypt and in Mogadishu, Somalia.
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After Mr. Zaharan's followers attacked worshipers of the Sufi sect, he evaded arrest and disappeared.
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The Gonabadi dervishes are the most affluent and influential religious order among Iran's Sufi Muslims.
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The extremist group has systematically razed the tombs of Sufi saints and dynamited their shrines.
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"They can talk all they want in Doha," Mr. Sufi said of the peace talks.
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His death was confirmed on the website of a Sufi Muslim organization in the Netherlands.
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The Sufi imam at the destroyed mosque still hardly dares to speak to foreign journalists.
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"It is unverified, mostly hearsay," said Salman Sufi, an aide to the Punjab chief minister.
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When a series of Sufi sites were targeted by unknown armed groups in August 2012 - including ancient shrines in Zliten and the port city of Misrata, and a mosque containing the tomb of a Sufi saint in Tripoli - the Libyan government condemned the acts.
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In keeping with Sufi tradition, Rumi's poetry tends to emphasize the connection between mind and body.
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In those days the Islam practiced in Afghanistan was deeply tied into Sufi traditions of poetry.
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Worshippers had gathered there for the Sufi ritual of Dhamal, which involves music, chanting and prayer.
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Syed Sufi Gardezi, the most senior Shiite cleric in Gardez, put the death toll at 30.
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One female member, who uses the Sufi name Nafisa, is originally a Shia Muslim from India.
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Unlike ISIS, the core leadership of al Qaeda has not singled out Sufi communities for attack.
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The Taliban and other extremist Sunni groups have attacked Sufi shrines and gatherings in recent years.
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Muslims venerated St. Elian as a Sufi sheikh, known to them as Sheikh Ahmed the Priest.
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This North Indian Hindu love story is recast as a Sufi tale for an Islamic court.
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In November 2017, the militants killed 311 worshipers at a Sufi mosque in the North Sinai.
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In February, Islamic State attacked a Sufi shrine in Pakistan's southern Sindh province, killing 83 people.
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Laylah Amatullah Barrayn's beautiful, moody color photographs documents how Sufi Muslims in Senegal are often treated as "Others," and yet thousands of pilgrims flow through mosques and sites like one devoted to Cheikh Amadou Bamba, founder of the Mouride Sufi sect and the holy city of Touba.
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"CONIFA is different to FIFA, in essence, because CONIFA recognizes unrecognized states," said Omar Sufi, team captain of hosts Barawa FA. "This tournament is important globally because we're playing against different teams from different backgrounds and we're all coming here together with the same value," said Sufi.
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But what if you continued to circulate for a much more extended time, like a whirling Sufi?
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His party is affiliated with the Moustarchidine religious movement, part of a leading Sufi brotherhood in Senegal.
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In many spiritual traditions, be it Sufi or Tantra, the ultimate lover for the seeker, is God.
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The afternoon gave over to Sufi chanting, a sacred activity of the same order as shape-note.
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"Many times they threatened my father over the phone (for) preaching Sufi Islam," the younger Faruqi said.
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A suicide-bomber killed 52 people at a Sufi shrine in the province of Balochistan in Pakistan.
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A series of terrorist attacks struck Pakistan, including one on a Sufi shrine that killed 88 people.
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While Shiites are more regular targets, Sunni militants have attacked Sufi shrines in Pakistan in recent years.
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Later, at least 15% of slaves brought from Africa were Muslims, and some of them were Sufi.
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Since then, virtually every major Sufi movement in the Old World has established itself on American soil.
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Sufi Muslims started drinking "qahwa" in the early 16th century to stay awake during their evening devotionals.
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Targets have included atheists, liberals, Hindus, gay-rights activists and, on May 7th, a Sufi Muslim leader.
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The attack on al-Rawdah mosque, which is largely attended by Sufi Muslims, occurred during Friday prayers.
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Most of Mr. Latif's Upper West Side group regularly attended a Sufi retreat in Pope Valley, Calif.
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The Sufi tradition offers a tolerant version of Islam that is spurned by extremists like the Taliban.
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This month, 18 people were killed in a suicide bombing at a Sufi shrine in southwestern Balochistan.
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He turned to Islam and the Sufi sect, which he said helped lend purpose to his life.
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Their particular animus toward the Sufi practice involves the tradition of visiting the graves of holy figures.
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Mr. Sufi said many Hazaras do not trust the Afghan government or security forces to protect them.
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It was Shahbaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab, not Salman Sufi, an aide to the chief minister.
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Between 2033 and 2023 men carried out the assault on the Rawdah Sufi mosque in northern Sinai.
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And a suicide bomber attacked a Sufi spiritual dance celebration in southern Pakistan, killing at least 70.
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Hundreds of Sufi Dervishes, dozens of environmentalists, 400 Ahwazis, 30 Isfahan farmers – all imprisoned by Iran's criminal regime.
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It's from the collection based on Sufi dancers and Georgia O'Keeffe, where we put guys in long skirts.
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Tunisia is considered one of the most successful states after the Arab Spring because of its Sufi roots.
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Arora envisions his work on Steam, accessible to anyone curious enough to type "Sufi" into the search bar.
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His father was among those killed at the al Rawdah Sufi Mosque in Bir al-Abed on Friday.
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The reconstruction of the shrine in Zliten "will have a positive effect on the Sufi scene," he said.
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Just over a year ago, the Islamic State began carrying out mass executions of Sufi worshipers during prayer.
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Saliou, above, is a member of the Baye Fall, followers of the Sufi Muslim brotherhood called the Mouride.
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Zahran went into hiding in 2017 after a fight in which his men confronted Sufi Muslims with swords.
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Here's what I knew about my grandfathers: They were both pirs, spiritual guides of Sufi orders in Kashmir.
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But targeting a Sufi mosque speaks to a larger trend of ISIS attacking Sufis for their religious beliefs.
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The Sufi brand of Islam is popular in the region and is credited with steering people away from weapons.
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Born in 1947 in Ain Beida, Algeria, Rachid's works draw from Sufi philosophy and the calligraphy of Quranic texts.
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But the mystical, moderate form of Sufi Islam practiced there has become a target of militants in recent years.
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The community practice a Sufi-inflected variation of Sunni Islam, which sees them systematically persecuted by the Buddhist majority.
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Born in Algeria in 1947, he came from a family of Quranic scholars and copyists in a Sufi tradition.
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In Turkey, his legend merged with a Sufi mystic called Nasruddin, while the Ottomans exported him to the Balkans.
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In November 2016, Wilayat Sinai kidnapped and beheaded Sulaiman Abu Haraz, a widely respected 100-year-old Sufi sheikh.
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Because she was raised in a Sufi household, the culture she's found in Senegal has resonated deeply with her.
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The artist has previously explored the Sumerian myth of Ishtar and Sufi traditional dance using the point cloud technique.
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The sheikh has documented the destruction of more than 530 Sufi cultural sites across Libya over the past decade.
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Gazzini noted that Sufi sites have also been destroyed by other Islamist factions, especially those affiliated with al Qaeda.
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The targeting of Sufi heritage in Libya predates the current conflict, said Pack, whose research focuses on Sanusi sufism.
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Rawda, the district where Friday's attack occurred, was mentioned as an area where it planned to "eradicate" Sufi beliefs.
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Her legend is rooted in a long poem, "Padmavat," written by the Sufi poet Malik Muhammad Jayasi in 1540.
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It's a hybrid, not so much timeless as time-traveling, with a score ranging from Sufi music to Bach.
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The attack followed several assaults on Sufi shrines in Pakistan over the past year carried out by Sunni extremists.
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GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO What a group the bassist David Holland convened for an album named after a Persian Sufi classic.
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It is perhaps best known for men and women practicing the ancient form of Sufi dance called the "dhamaal".
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Incorporating Shiite, Sufi, Sunni and local traditions, Alevism is a strain of Islam that emerged in the medieval period.
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The old imam, a devotee of Sufi mysticism, has been replaced by a more conservative preacher; the cinema has closed.
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At one point, he presented Cash with a poem called "Truth," writes by a Sufi teacher named Hazrat Inayat Khan.
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Its attacks have focused on religious minorities, such as Hindu clerics and nonmajority Muslims from Shiite, Ahmadiyya and Sufi communities.
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High Priest from Antipop [Consortium] was I think the first person to use Sufi Plug Ins on a vinyl record.
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The story appears to be the invention of a sixteenth-century Sufi poet by the name of Malik Muhammad Jayasi.
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More than 2420 people were slain by jihadists who attacked a mosque attended by Sufi Muslims in Egypt's Sinai peninsula.
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"Medical examinations have been conducted on both of them and they have confirmed that both girls were raped," Sufi said.
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Is Islam the transcendent verses of the Sufi mystic Bulleh Shah, who said, "I am free; my mind is free"?
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Islamic State's regional branch claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on Thursday at a Sufi shrine in Pakistan's Sindh province.
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In 503, she set off for Algeria, where she helped set up schools and tended impoverished families and Sufi mystics.
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The ISIS affiliate suspected in the attack, Wilayat Sinai, have increasingly targeted Sufi Muslims, considered heretics by the Islamic State.
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Last November, an explosion ripped through another Sufi shrine, the Shah Noorani in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 52 people.
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One Sufi tradition that has taken root in wider Libyan culture is the celebration of Mawlid, the Prophet Mohammad's birthday.
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But RUMI, a 13th-century Sufi mystic (and a favorite of my wife), has to be acceptable in future puzzles.
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Meanwhile, the mystical Sufi orders focused on developing virtue, which allowed them to spread the faith through inspiration and example.
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"The Taliban will always be the Taliban," Mr. Sufi said as he squatted on a carpet inside the chilly mosque.
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Sufi practice focuses on the renunciation of worldly things, purification of the soul and the mystical contemplation of God's nature.
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A California-based couple named Sufi Malik and Anjali Chakra met on Tumblr, and they&aposve been together since 2018.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The men and women arrived late on Saturday at a Sufi shrine in a village in central Pakistan.
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November 2053 - More than 2043 people are killed during a bomb and gun attack on a Sufi mosque in Egypt.
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Other ISIS militants have also murdered Sufis around the world, including a February bombing of a Sufi shrine in Pakistan.
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Other Islamic militants — not just ISIS — destroy Sufi shrines and sites around the world, including in Libya, Mali, and Iran.
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The clashes broke out in February when supporters of Sufi leader Nourali Tabandeh rallied outside his home, fearing his possible arrest.
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Some believe that Rumi's students killed Shamsuddin, according to the Dervish Retreat Center, a Sufi cultural center in Spencer, New York.
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Lahore has suffered terror attacks in recent years, including a 2010 assault on a Sufi shrine that killed more than 40.
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His anarcho-Sufi ghazals are recited intentionally in English "to address my sorrow in the language of my oppression," Waqar explains.
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The Sufi master and contemporary pioneer both express their yearning for freedom and the recognition of the ephemeral nature of life.
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That has raised concerns of radicalization, especially in West Africa where the more tolerant Sufi Islam has historically been more dominant.
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With critical theory and costume changes, she engages her audiences with Sufi music, Disney imagery, Bollywood tropes, and auto-ethnographic research.
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Local officials said Muslims from both the Shiite and Sunni sects visit the shrine, which is devoted to a Sufi saint.
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The Sufi tradition is a moderate, inclusive version of Islam, in which saints, devotional music and dance play a central role.
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IS's Egyptian branch is responsible for an onslaught of bombings against the country's Coptic Christian minority (as well as Sufi Muslims).
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No wonder this poetry and its music became the pabulum for Sufi gatherings, where this human-divine ambiguity was the keynote.
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It is also the reason given for the destruction of Shia and Sufi shrines, by the Saudis as well as ISIS.
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Twenty-five to 30 attackers arrived in five SUVs at the al Rawdah Sufi mosque in Bir al-Abed on Friday.
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Mr. Chekkouri is a Sufi, a member of a mystical Islamic sect that has been oppressed by Al Qaeda and others.
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"After her hippie British parents are murdered, Lilly is raised at a Sufi shrine in Morocco," reads the blurb on Goodreads.
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In 2004, there was a grenade attack on a Sufi mosque and in 2006 several homes of Sufis were set afire.
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Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, the chief minister of Punjab, expressed his grief over the loss of life, said an aide, Salman Sufi.
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He traveled to the republic of Georgia to record polyphonic folk songs and to Fez, Morocco, in search of Sufi music.
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He toils on the site most days for at least a few hours, his earbuds piping a stream of Sufi chants.
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Sheikh Safi al-din Khānegāh and Ardabil shrine ensemble This Sufi spiritual retreat was built between the 16th and 18th centuries.
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Siegel concludes with an image of Peter Lamborn Wilson handing her a text by the 12th century Sufi poet Ibn Arabi.
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A suicide bombing claimed by Islamic State at a Sufi Muslim shrine this month killed 22 people and wounded more than 30.
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Again through its media wing Amaq, ISIS claimed responsibility for the Saturday evening blast on a Sufi shrine, 120 miles from Karachi.
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And a fifth follow one of three Sufi schools of Islam, an esoteric and mystical branch derided as apostate by hardline Salafists.
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"The practices at shrines include money donations, jewelry and gifts in return (for) a pat of blessing from the custodians," Sufi said.
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Michael Feroli, David Greenlaw, Peter Hooper, Frederic Mishkin and Amir Sufi argue that in normal times, data-dependent guidance beats a schedule.
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Sufi said the center had only been opened in March and liaised directly with police to provide assistance to victims, including counseling.
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When Zikr: A Sufi Revival came to a close, I only had a taste of the religious experience, but it was intoxicating.
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It includes Sheikh Hisham Kabbani, a Lebanese Sufi now based mostly in Michigan who has been warning for years about rising extremism.
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True believers ISIS is doctrinaire about its definition of true Muslims, and has often warned that it would target the Sufi community.
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Millions of Egyptians belong to Sufi orders, which hold sessions of chanting and poetry meant to draw the faithful closer to God.
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Ultra-conservative Salafists abhor Sufi practices and some have in the past threatened to smash their symbols with hammers and iron bars.
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Elsewhere, the Islamic State has made a spectacle of bulldozing Sufi shrines, describing their removal as a form of purifying the faith.
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"The result often is a severely fractured relationship between spouses or catastrophic aftereffects, like we witnessed in this case," Mr. Sufi said.
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Besides the standard prayers, Sufi devotions include singing hymns, chanting the names of God or dancing to heighten awareness of the divine.
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Even after his band of radicals had begun targeting moderate Sufi Muslims and vandalizing Buddhist statues, the warnings were not taken seriously.
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Though Al Qaeda has also targeted Sufi sites, the Islamic State has set itself apart by calling for brutal attacks against Sufis.
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In the fall of 2016, Islamic State's local affiliate claimed to have executed a Sufi cleric who was about 100 years old.
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The religious objections of fundamentalists to the Sufi style of worship may not be the only factor behind the attacks on Sufis.
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Dozens of militants opened fire on a mosque in Sinai affiliated with the Sufi strain of Islam, which extremists view as heretical.
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Mona Eltahawy An attack at a Sufi mosque in the northern Sinai Peninsula in Egypt killed at least 20173 people on Friday.
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After years fighting Egypt's security forces there, Islamic State militants broadened their range of targets in 2017 to Christians and Sufi Muslims.
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" In her author bio, Ms. Dalmia describes herself as "a progressive libertarian and an agnostic with Buddhist longings and a Sufi soul.
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While the brutality and devastation are noteworthy on their own, the attack was also striking because the victims were primarily Sufi Muslims.
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Late in the city's period under Ottoman rule, the monument was also used as a place of worship by Sufi Muslim Whirling Dervishes.
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He sang all over South Asia (being a star in India and Bangladesh as well as Pakistan), in Sufi shrines and on television.
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The blast took the lives of more than 50 people who had come from far and wide to watch its Sufi mystics dance.
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The town had a reputation for welcoming Sufis, and ISIS reportedly warned the locals to stop practicing Sufi rites, according to several locals.
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Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN)Amjad Sabri, one of Pakistan's most well-known Sufi musicians, was gunned down Wednesday in the southern city of Karachi.
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Amjad Sabri belonged to the renowned Sabri family, members of the Chishti Sufi order and the most famous Qawwali group in the country.
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The city of Touba hosts the annual pilgrimage celebrating the work of Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba, a Sufi guide who peacefully opposed French settlers.
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Our final pick, Mr Sufi, is, like Ms Nakamura, exploiting voluminous data unavailable to scholars of previous downturns to understand the Great Recession.
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They were taken from Hadj Omar Tall, a Sufi military commander who briefly formed an empire that stretched across Guinea, Mali and Senegal.
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On arrival in America, he was welcomed by devotees of the great Sufi poet Rumi and became a popular figure at spiritual gatherings.
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No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but ISIS is active in Sinai and has repeatedly targeted Sufi Muslims in the past.
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They have also stoked sectarian tension by destroying the shrines of Sufi mystics and declaring Ibadism, the sect of Libya's Berber minority, heretical.
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On a leafy block of West 211nd Street, a Muslim Sufi order meets each Thursday evening, squeezing into Abdul Latif's three-bedroom apartment.
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"I was always interested in Sufi culture: music, dance, art and the works of the Persian poets Rumi and Hafez," Ms. Gentile said.
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The mosque was associated with the Sufi tradition within Islam, which is regarded as apostasy by ISIS and by some in al Qaeda.
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A 17-year-old boy, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisals, recalled the scene outside the Sufi mosque as the massacre began.
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According to one resident of the town, the militants threatened the mosque five separate times, ordering those responsible to stop holding Sufi gatherings.
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"Disbelievers and apostates, die with your anger," read one post seen by Reuters this month that praised the killing of a Sufi cleric.
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For the past 20 years, Barrayn has been traveling to Senegal, interested in its majority Muslim population and its heavily Sufi-influenced culture.
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Enforcers are shown hitting one man with plastic tubing and beheading two elderly adherents of Sufi Islam, accusing them of sorcery and apostasy.
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ABOU: April 9, 2018: The first name of the Sufi saint Abou Ben Adhem, and the subject of a poem by Leigh Hunt.
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Malik Muhammad Jayasi, a Sufi Muslim poet, created the character of Padmavati in an epic poem he wrote in the mid-16th century.
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The local group follows a fundamentalist form of Islam that believes Sufi Muslims, who adhere to a mystical school of Islam, are heretics.
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The Zildjians likely also did business with Greek and Armenian churches, Sufi dervishes and the Sultan's harem, where belly dancers wore finger cymbals.
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Turrisi was using the daf , an Iranian frame drum with metal rings in the back, which is used a lot in Sufi music.
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"The practices at shrines include money donations, jewelry and gifts in return of a pat of blessing from the custodians," Mr. Sufi said.
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They also regard the relatively gentle, folksy version of Islam practised by many Sunnis in Pakistan, with its Sufi shrines and saints, as blasphemous.
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A suicide bombing claimed by Islamic State at a Sufi Muslim shrine in Baluchistan this month killed 22 people and wounded more than 30.
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Amjad Sabri, 45, was one of South Asia's most popular singers of the 'qawwali', Sufi devotional music that dates back more than 700 years.
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It saw the rise of experimental, intellectual, and artistic movements, influenced by Paris but also rooted in pre-Islamic and Sufi art and thought.
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Diski riskily interrogates the ingratitude lurking beneath her feelings toward Lessing — the aristocratic savior (of the Communist-Sufi-literary variety) to her Dickensian waif.
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Arora's new film, Zikr: A Sufi Revival, cuts through the two extreme perceptions of Sufism to reveal the reality of everyday life and worship.
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The Fourth Way drew from, among other things, Zen Buddhism, Sufi Islam, and the occult; followers strove for unceasing self-awareness and self-mastery.
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That didn't happen until 2013, when I traveled to Konya, Turkey, for a conference on the poetry and life of the Sufi mystic Rumi.
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Many members of Turkey's Alevi community, whose faith draws from Shi'ite, Sufi and Anatolian traditions, say Selim slaughtered tens of thousands of their forebears.
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Last year, the militants beheaded a leading local Sufi religious figure, the blind sheikh Suleiman Abu Heraz, and posted photos of the killing online.
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The bombing killed at least 25 people at a crowded Sufi shrine in southern Pakistan and dozens more were wounded, according to local media.
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It showed what it said were militants beheading two elderly Sufi men in the desert after they were found guilty of witchcraft and sorcery.
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In Série K (22), Feyzdjou revisits a book she drew earlier in her career, inspired by Sufi mysticism and, conjuring her Jewish roots, Kabbalah.
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Many residents of Bir al-Abed, on the main road through northern Sinai, are Bedouins from the Abu Greir tribe, which is predominantly Sufi.
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Earlier that year, following violent riots against Sufi worshippers in Kattankudy in which several people were arrested, Zahran became a target of the police.
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His great-grandfather, Deni Arsanov, led a Sufi Muslim order and is revered by some Chechens as a religious figure akin to a saint.
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Sri Lankan Muslims trace our roots back to the Arab traders and Sufi mystics who brought Islam to Sri Lanka in the seventh century.
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"The chief minister is monitoring the situation and has directed the authorities to provide the best medical facilities to the injured," Mr. Sufi said.
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Thousands of books have been donated to the libraries; Doctors Without Borders is helping to rebuild the city's hospitals; and Sufi festivals have returned.
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"I DM'd Sufi one day asking if we could talk about her experience as a queer South Asian woman, and she agreed," Chakra said.
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She practices Sufi whirling, a twirling style of dance associated with Persian dervishes that involves extended stretches of vigorous spinning in a meditative trance.
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It derives from a long genealogy in Islamic art that flourished in early Ottoman, Timurid, and Deccani realms and often appears in Sufi contexts.
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"Sufism ... is the core and the very spirit of Islam itself," Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, a prominent American Sufi cleric, said in an interview.
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Through its media wing Amaq, ISIS claimed responsibility for the blast on a Sufi shrine in the Lasbela district of Balochistan, 120 miles from Karachi.
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The transatlantic group's new single "Thas My Girl" is the first track from their new 6-track EP Sufi La, available digitally from May 26.
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As Messrs Mian and Sufi and Francesco Trebbi of the University of British Columbia noted in 2014, political polarisation and factionalisation almost inevitably follow crises.
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Williams started working on an early version in the 1960s, after illustrating a series of books drawn from folklore about the Sufi "holy fool" Nasrudin.
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Sufism transcends sectarian divides in the religion, and is loathed by Islamic fundamentalists, many of whom have attacked Sufi shrines and killed imams and worshipers.
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Ms Lacy convened both groups in the abandoned factory, Asians in a circle performing Sufi chants and white residents singing in a traditional choral square.
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Officials are also warning of a possible new attack by the same terrorist group targeting Sufi shrines, according to a letter obtained by the Times.
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Other versions and other faiths got no support from the state; indeed, it outlawed the mystical Sufi orders that had heavily inflected Ottoman-era Islam.
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A suicide bombing at a Sufi shrine in the Baluch town of Jhal Magsi on Thursday killed 22 people and wounded more than 30 others.
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At one point, the narrator, a grown man, receives oral sex from a 16-year-old girl in the abandoned mausoleum of a Sufi mystic.
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Its fighters have destroyed Shi'ite and Sufi religious sites and attacked churches and other shrines in the parts of Iraq and Syria under their control.
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DHAKA, Bangladesh — A local Sufi Muslim leader in northern Bangladesh was found hacked to death in a secluded mango grove, the police said on Saturday.
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"Two of my sons in law were executed, slaughtered - one on accusations of collaboration, and the other simply for being a Sufi," Hassan Dhaher said.
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The Sufi shrine -- Sufism is more mystic interpretation of Islam -- is located in a distant area of southwestern Balochistan in a town called Jhal Magsi.
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The Salafists endorse Saudi's strict Wahhabi version of Sunni Islam and oppose the more mainstream Sufi Islam that dominates Algeria and other North African countries.
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Haji Khalil Dare Sufi, an elder at Al Zahra mosque, said Hazaras would never give up the weapons he said they needed to defend themselves.
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H.M. Ameer, a member of the Sufi community, said that he and other Sufis had repeatedly contacted the police to warn about Mr. Zaharan's extremism.
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They follow a Sufi sect, known as Aissawa in neighboring regions, that emphasizes spiritual music accompanied by dances that put participants in a mystical trance.
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That's when he began reading widely in spiritual traditions — Hindu; Buddhist; Sufi; Christian; and his own, Jewish — for perspective, and guidance on how to live.
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At least 50 of the wounded were critically hurt in the explosion at the Sufi shrine in a remote part of southern Pakistan, officials said.
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That work remains one of the most widely read texts in the Muslim and Persian-speaking world, both for its Sufi wisdom and poetic force.
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The news agencies on Saturday named those executed as Soleiman Mozafari, Esmail Sufi, Rahman Behrouz, Majed Mortezai, Sirous Azizi, Ayoub Esmaili, Khosro Ramezani and Osman Behrouz.
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FOUSSANA, Tunisia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Standing near the shrine of the Sufi saint Sidi Boughanem in western Tunisia, Karim points to the earth below his feet.
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Mr Sufi and Atif Mian of Princeton University find evidence for their macro-view in a micro-map of debt, spending and unemployment across America's counties.
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Custodian Abdul Waheed drugged and stripped the victims before they were killed at the Sufi shrine, which is named the Ali Ahmad Gunnar Shrine, said Chattah.
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Then in the early 1900s, a Sufi master called Inayat Khan travelled through North America and established at least 13 communities who followed his mystical path.
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He quotes from Sufi mystics like Rumi and Al Arabi but incorporates the words of the Algerian novelist Mohammed Dib and the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.
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More than 300 people were also arrested after hundreds of Sufi (Muslim minority) demonstrators converged outside a police building to protest the detention of some members.
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In the writings of Abbasid poets, Sufi sheikhs, Shiite divines, and Andalusian philosophers, he found a tradition of dissenters who thumbed their noses at the orthodoxy.
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Hundreds of worshipers were inside the shrine of the Sufi saint Shah Bilal Noorani, and dozens were performing a devotional "dhamal" dance when the bomber struck.
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The victims were going on a pilgrimage to a shrine that houses the tomb of Sufi Shah Agha, a companion and relative of the Prophet Mohammad.
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Inspired by her lifelong obsession with archeological sites from Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, Sufi poetry and Islamic art, she created a sculptural language of her own.
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When a branch of Al Qaeda captured northern Mali in 2012, militants used pickaxes and bulldozers to destroy the ancient mausoleums of Sufi saints in Timbuktu.
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After Thursday's attack, many devotees said they felt fearful but also vowed to keep up their Sufi practices and hoped for better protection from the authorities.
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This view was further articulated by Ibn Arabi, a Sufi master from medieval Spain, who highlighted an important nuance in the Quranic version of the story.
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A suicide bomber killed 52 people and wounded over 100 at a Baluchistan Sufi shrine in November last year, in an attack claimed by Islamic State.
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Pakistani security forces in February killed around 100 militants after a Sufi Shrine bombing in February that killed more than 80 in the southern province of Sindh.
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" Pierre is referring to the Mouride Brotherhood, an order of Sufi Islam based in the holy city of Touba, whose Arabic name translates to "blessedness" or "bliss.
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An account of an attack at a Sufi shrine includes details of how policemen carried away the heads of the suicide bombers from an attack in 2010.
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Turkey is overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, but a fifth of its 78 million people is estimated to be Alevi, which draws from Shi'a, Sufi and Anatolian folk traditions.
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But though this piece often sounded disjointed, its elements — jazz scatting and rhythmic Sufi chanting, for instance — always seemed on the verge of connecting in fascinating ways.
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According to The Arab Weekly, there are more Sufi shrines than mosques in Tunisia, but they're frequently the target of violence from conservative Muslims known as Salafis.
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She became a Sufi in the 1970s, and, now known as Sheikha Fariha al-Jerrahi, has led the Nur Jerrahi order since its founder's death in 1995.
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In Pakistan, Sufi shrines have come under frequent attack, most recently in February this year, when a suicide bombing claimed by ISIS killed at least 70 people.
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The target: The mosque is known for being the birthplace of Sheikh Eid al-Jariri, a Sufi cleric considered the founder of Sufism in the Sinai Peninsula.
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A meditative heir to Nietzsche's aphorisms, Rilke's "Book of Hours" and the verses of Sufi mysticism, "Night" is an intricate thread of reflections on pain and beauty.
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Also, Zahran had found a popular target: the town's Sufi population, who practice a form of Islam often described a mystical, but which to conservatives is heresy.
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Under the czars, the great-grandfather, though he fought in a rebellion in his youth, had taught a pacifist, Sufi Islamic philosophy of acquiescence to government authority.
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It was also believed to be responsible for an attack on a Sufi mosque in North Sinai last month, killing 311 people in Egypt's worst terrorist attack.
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He is identified in the photograph as Abu Hiraz, a Sufi cleric, who according to news reports was abducted in front of his home in late 2016.
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Salafi hard-liners took over mosques, assaulted liquor-store owners, enforced dress codes, attacked cultural events that they deemed blasphemous, desecrated Sufi tombs, and threatened secular activists.
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I aimed to learn it by heart and under the expert tutelage of my father, a physician by trade and a connoisseur of Sufi poetry by tradition.
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Salman Sufi, the director general of the Chief Minister's Strategic Reforms Unit, who helped to open the women's center, said both girls had been given medical examinations.
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This foreign money and the migration of Senegal's youth to the cities has undermined the country's Mouride brotherhood, an old-established Islamic Sufi order which preaches tolerance.
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ISIS itself has targeted Sufis around the world several times over the past year (in February 2017, a Sufi shrine in Pakistan was bombed by ISIS militants).
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The bombing Thursday evening targeted the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, a popular Sufi saint, in Sehwan, a city in Jamshoro district of the southern Sindh Province.
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