The Naqshbandi sufi order focuses on the inner purification of an individual applying the influence of the Quranic exhortations on his/her soul and heart. The Naqshbandi sufi order focuses on the ...

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We live in times dominated by cross-genre, fusion music where Sufi often gets blended with commercial melodies. But this weekend, in a festival at the NCPA, you can experience Sufi music in its purest ...

The Indian capital is set to witness national and international singers like Abida Parveen, Ali Zafar and Hans Raj Hans, Andrea Griminelli (Italian flautist) as well as some emerging talents at a ...

Affan Yesvi is a Sufi scholar, columnist, and entrepreneur. As a descendant of the 11th-century Sufi saint, Khawaja Ahmed Yasawi - a mystic, poet, and founder of the Yasaviyya Sufi order in Central ...

Thousands of worshipers were gathered at a prominent Sufi shrine in Sehwan, Pakistan, last month when a suicide bomb ripped through the courtyard, killing more than 80. As a counterterrorism analyst, ...

You don’t often come across a yogi dancing simultaneously to Sufi strains from folk Punjabi poetry and traditional South Indian folklore. That’s why it was a rare treat to watch Navtej Johar; ...

BENGALURU: Inspired by the works of saints like Amir Khusro, Baba Bulleh Shah, Kabir, Guru Nanak, and Meera Bai to name a few, Rangreza takes you on this divine journey through Sufi kalaams to bring ...

"Ishq-e-Majaji karenge toh ishq-e-Haqiqi tak pahuchenge, this is a Sufi phrase that means you will understand divine love only after you fall in earthly love," says Pakistani singer Ali Haider ...

Pakistan’s reigning prince of Qawwali music, Asif Ali Khan, was a favourite student of the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Qawwali is now one of the world’s most famous traditions of Sufi music, a mixture ...