Indonesia's Salafist Sufis

The Impact of Soviet Policy on Female Sufis in Chechnya

Sufis on parade: the performance of Black, African, and Muslim identities.

For over twenty years, West African Muslims from the Murid Sufi Brotherhood have organized the annual Cheikh Amadou Bamba Day parade in New York City. It is a major site where they redefine the boundaries of their African identities, cope with the stigma of blackness, and counteract an anti-Muslim backlash. Rather than viewing religion as a subset of ethnicity, this study shows how African Muri...

A Critical Review of the European Travelogues Reports on the Sufis of the Safavid Era

The European travelers' reports on the Sufi-era Sufism contain exquisite and valuable details as they are written out of the requirements of official historiography. Designed in a descriptive-analytical way, this article attempts to evaluate the reports of the travelers as compared to the works of dissidents, sympathizers, and Sufi scholars. The result showed that the travelers, due to their li...

Shiʿi-Sufi Relations: The Imams of the Shiʿa in the Works of the Sufis of Khurasan

The relation between Shiʿism and Sufism has been long a matter of discussion among scholars, leading to a spectrum of views: some maintain that the two are identical, and, on the other extreme, some believe that they are totally divergent. However, the love for the Imams of the Shiʿa is shared by all Sufi orders, including the Sufis of Khurasan. As the paragons of spirituality and representativ...

the morphology of dream stories in sufis’ prose texts

the circumstance of dream formation, although repetitive, is still complicated and wonderful. except the contents of dreams, the atmosphere they’ll be quoted is also important. dreaming or being seen in a dream are two frequently repeated subjects in sufic traditions. in this analysis, we have tried, introducing the characteristics of formalistic and structural schools, to assess the morphologi...