Oludamini Ogunnaike tentatively ushers the words to the poem he has translated from Sufi master Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse’s collection The Light of Truth. “The Holy is not seen with the naked eye, but ...

Mohammad Nooraee knew exactly what he needed when Brandeis University students asked him to distill the essence of Sufism, an Islamic mystical tradition. Nooraee, director of the Nimatullahi Sufi ...

Egyptian singer Mohammed Munir is gearing up to shoot a religious video inspired by the Arab World's Sufi heritage. The song depicts the tolerance of Islam, which is based on justice and human welfare ...

The festival of colours incites vibrant hues in the arena of history, art, culture and poetry. From the literature of the Mughal epoch to Sufi-poems and Urdu-shayari, the Holi opens up chronicles of a ...

The first words from Rumi that stuck in Shahabaz Aman’s mind were, “The wound is the place where light enters you.” Like dust grains in an oyster, the line harboured within him, slowly growing into a ...

By Ruba Hattar This weekend Iran has mourned classic Persian music icon Mohammad Reza Shajarian, who passed away at the age of 80 due to cancer. Shajarian, who started his life learning how to recite ...

This month, the Sufi troupe Al-Hadra celebrated five years since they first took the stage, and Ahram Online traces their journey as conveyed in their slogan 'from mosques to theatres' This month, the ...

Yumna Zaidi may be well-known for her acting chops but it turns out that the actor has another incredible talent: writing and reading poetry. Zaidi took to Instagram on Tuesday to share a Sufi poem ...