African Journal of Gender and Religion, Vol. 30, No. 1 (July 2024), pp. 1-27 (27 pages) This article will tackle how African Muslim Women represented by Sudanese women, are undergoing specific ...

In the race to establish the presence of science in Islam, the Sufi focus on spirituality is often overlooked, according to Religious Studies professor Barbara von Schlegell. In front of an audience ...

When watching a Sufi whirling dervish spin, it may appear as though they are following something unseen, led by an invisible ...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Every Friday afternoon people flock to a small mosque in one of the alleys in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City. They are there not only to perform the five daily ...

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. The rise of Wahhabism has had a significant impact on the Middle East and beyond. This strict interpretation of Islam, which originated with an 18th century preacher based in the ...

POUND, Va.POUND, Va. — A Virginia inmate says he’s been held in isolation at a Virginia supermax prison for six years and denied access to religious services. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports ...

Sufi Islam is a small sect that is not politically active. And yet Sufi shrines have been repeatedly targeted by radical groups during upheavals... When radical Islamists lash out at cultural sites ...

Dressed in white robes to symbolize purity and equality before God, followers from the Layene brotherhood commemorate the first public appearance of their founder Seydina Limamou Laye in 1884 at ...

Vilayat Inayat Khan, 87, head of the Sufi Order International, representing members of a mystical type of Islam, died June 17 at his home in the Paris suburb of Suresnes. No specific cause of death ...

Prayers and melodic chants reverberated across Dakar’s Yoff neighborhood as thousands of Sufi Muslim followers from the Layene brotherhood commemorated the first public appearance of their founder ...