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According to Dr Gulfishan Khan, a history professor at Aligarh Muslim University, Jamali was a polymath, an extensive traveller and a leading Sufi scholar of his time. “A study of Shaykh Jamali’s ...

There are a bunch of awesome platforms to choose from if you want to watch cartoons online, even for free. Whether we’re talking about modern series, vintage ones from the 1990s or earlier ...

Albania's prime minister has revealed plans to establish a microstate for Sufi Muslims within the country's capital, Tirana. At the UN General Assembly last week, Prime Minister Edi Rama said the ...

Hyderabad: The ‘Kulhind Anjuman e Sufi Sajjagan’, a committee comprising the heads of different Sufi institutions in the country have opposed the Waqf Amendment Bill (2024). At a meeting, the heads of ...

Pakistani music documentry film "Songs of the Sufi" has won the Best Documentary - Audience Choice Award at the 15th Chicago South Asian Film Festival held in Chicago from Sept 19-22, 2024.

Dhaka, an important centre of Islamic culture in Bengal, has long been associated with Sufi saints and their shrines (dargahs), where Qawwali has been an integral part of religious gatherings. Sufism ...

An editorial cartoon lampooning the large number of people running in Halifax's mayoral election is facing criticism for using the image of a monkey to illustrate a candidate. The cartoon ...

Pakistani music documentary film Songs of the Sufi (SOTS) has won the Best Documentary — Audience Choice Award at the 15th Chicago South Asian Film Festival. The feature documentary film tells the ...