Reporting from Dubai, UAEReporting from Dubai, UAE — When some two dozen militants massacred at least 305 people in the Sinai Peninsula on Friday, they were targeting the Sufi community that worshiped ...

The target of the horrendous massacre in Egypt on Friday has been described as a Sufi mosque. More than 305 people were killed by suspected ISIS sympathizers. A lot of media outlets described Sufism ...

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 ...

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 its letter to the Board of Trustees of Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, USHMM, the Sufi group said that ...

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 ...

CAIRO – An international rights group says Muslim Sufi places of worship face increasing attacks in Libya. Thursday's Human Rights Watch statement says two historic Sufi mosques were attacked in ...

Samanta is on the faculty in the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech. Here's a fact that has not been on the radar in the recent controversy about the proposed building of the Cordoba ...

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 ...

Radical Islamist militants converted the Al Rawdah Mosque in the town Bir al-Abd in Egypt's northern Sinai peninsula from a scene of prayer to a slaughterhouse on Friday. Jihadis detonated an ...

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 ...