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Sufism

January 2023

  • Orchestral Qawwali Project

    ‘It’s a spiritual experience’: the whirlwind rise of Orchestral Qawwali Project

    Their take on a 700-year-old song went viral during lockdown, they’ve sold out the Southbank Centre and collaborated with Nitin Sawhney. Duo Abi Sampa and Rushil Ranjan discuss how they’re giving ancient sacred music a new lease of life

April 2022

  • Images from the series Sebaätou Rijal by artist Maïmouna Guerresi.

    Enigmatic photographs inspired by Sufi spirituality – in pictures

    Photographs inspired by Sufi spirituality by artist Maïmouna Guerresi

July 2021

  • Noor Mohammad Shah

    ‘It feels good’: Kashmir folk singer’s rise from dusty street to music star

    Noor Mohammad Shah has given traditional Sufi music a new lease of life after a chance encounter

March 2020

  • Pakistani singer Ustad Saam

    Ustad Saami’s ‘mind-boggling’ album God Is Not a Terrorist: ‘It’s superhuman’

    The 76-year-old music virtuoso released his first record last year. He’s the last surviving practitioner of a 13th century tradition at risk of dying with him

February 2020

  • Abida Parveen<br>Legendary Sufi singer Abida Parveen of Pakistan performs to a sold-out crowd at Humayun's Tomb during the Jahan-e-Khusrau Sufi Music Festival in New Delhi, India, Sunday, March 4, 2012. Parveen, who sings mostly in Urdu, is one of the foremost musicians in modern Sufi music. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

    'This spirituality liberates you': Sufi superstar Abida Parveen set to transport Melbourne

    The devotional singer is known to move audiences to a higher plane. Meeting her in Melbourne, Ben Eltham writes, time went ‘all bendy and loose’

November 2017

  • A burned truck outside Al-Rawda mosque in Bir al-Abd northern Sinai, Egypt

    To find the extremism behind the Egypt terror attack, start with anti-Sufi preachers

    HA Hellyer
  • People hold candles at vigil in Cairo

    Egypt's Sufis will stay indoors to mark birth of prophet Muhammad

April 2017

  • Relatives wait at a hospital to receive the bodies of victims killed at a Sufi shrine

    Twenty people tortured and killed in attack at Pakistan shrine

    Police arrest three suspects in Punjab including shrine’s custodian after attack by men wielding batons and knives

January 2017

  • Mohammed Ramzan in 1992

    Other lives
    Mohammed Ramzan obituary

    Other lives: Community activist and religious teacher in the Sufi tradition

September 2016

  • Ancient book in Fez

    World's oldest library reopens in Fez: 'You can hurt us, but you can't hurt the books'

    After years of restoration, the ninth-century Qarawiyyin library in north-eastern Morocco is finally set to reopen – with strict security and a new underground canal system to protect its most prized manuscripts

August 2016

  • Rahat Fateh Ali Khan headlines the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo: ‘It was easy … I came in and did something I had done before to thousands.’

    Rahat Fateh Ali Khan: ‘My uncle was the Voice’

    The Pakistani sufi pop star says he could never measure up to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and explains why he titled his first self-penned song It’s All Lies

June 2016

  • Distraught brother of Amjad Sabri

    Amjad Sabri: Pakistani Sufi singer shot dead in Karachi

    Outpouring of grief across Pakistan as famed musician Amjad Sabri dies in Taliban gun attack on car

February 2016

  • Blue Family, 2010, triptych, Lambda print

    Mystical images inspired by Sufi saints – in pictures

  • Sudan's Sufi order celebrations

    Guardian Africa network
    The psychedelic world of Sudan's Sufis – in pictures

July 2015

  • One of the 14 mausoleums that have been restored in Timbuktu, Mali after being destroyed by Islamic extremists

    Timbuktu's historic tombs restored in show of confidence for war-ravaged Mali

    Local and international project in ‘city of 33 saints’ reconstructs 14 Sufi mausoleums smashed up by al-Qaida backed extremists

June 2015

  • Zero Quensel near Glastonbury, where she ran a shop raising funds for the Healing Hearts Sufi charit

    Other lives
    Zero Quensel obituary

    Other lives: Environmentalist who embraced Sufism and devoted herself to charitable work

February 2015

  • Waqas Khan: detail from The text in continuum, 2015.

    Waqas Khan: the Pakistani artist who makes you want to say yes

  • Libyans wave national flags on Martyrs' Square in Tripoli as hundreds of people demonstrated in support of the UN-brokered dialogue between warring factions.

    Libya's Arab spring: the revolution that ate its children

October 2014

  • Sufi shrine

    Sufism: ‘a natural antidote to fanaticism’

    Jason Webster on why the republication of Idries Shah book about Sufism – whose enthusiasts have included Winston Churchill, Ted Hughes and Doris Lessing – couldn’t be more timely

August 2014

  • shaykh nazim

    Other lives
    Shaykh Nazim obituary

    Other lives: Spiritual healer and senior figure in an international order of Sunni Islamic Sufism
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