SEHWAN (Dadu), July 23: Promotion of peace, love and tolerance through the teachings of Sufism will help in containing terrorism and hatred plaguing the nation. Speaking at a conference held during ...

KARACHI, Oct 30: Paying homage to one the most celebrated Sufi poets of the 14th century, the Khana-i-Farhang Karachi held a seminar on the influence of Sheikh Mahmood Shabistri’s teachings in Sindh.

Sufism, the mystical path within Islam, like other inner traditions such as Yoga and Kabbalah, has both an element of philosophical esotericism and a dimension of practice that can more easily be ...

Journal of Religion and Health, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Fall, 1988), pp. 221-235 (15 pages) Like the teaching stories of many other religions—the parables of Jesus, Zen koans, Hasidic tales—the stories of the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Sufism is typically thought of as a mystical branch of Islam whose practices developed in the Middle East during the eighth century and whose adherents can now be found around the world. But whereas ...

Frager, an American psychology professor and sheikh of the Halveti-Jerrahi Sufi order, presents in this book a number of discrete but interconnected sohbets, or conversations, on a variety of ...

President Ahmadinejad (left) has led the Islamic republic in an increasingly conservative direction (file photo) (AFP) Human rights activists have expressed concern over the arrest on 13 February of ...