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 ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES (RNS) The rhythmic chanting of 15 “beloveds,” as they call themselves, ripples across a prayer room in a family home in the San Fernando Valley. They stand in a circle with their hands ...

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 ...

Mumbai: Sufi Muslim organisations have started a ‘Fakr hai, Maulai Hoon’ (Proud to be Maulai) campaign to counter the recent ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...