Category Archives: Events

Huge crowds converge in Senegal’s holy city for Sufi pilgrimage – Art & Culture – The Jakarta Post

Posted on November 12, 2018 by Imam Salim Chishti

Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children converged on Senegal’s holy city of Touba on Sunday for the Grand Magal, a traditional annual march and biggest celebration of the Mouride Brotherhood, a Sufi Islamic order.

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Fez to hold 11th Festival of Sufi Culture this month | MEO

Posted on October 20, 2018 by Imam Salim Chishti

Festival themed “Presence of Sufism” seeks to reinforce Morocco’s position in intercultural dialogue by forging bridge between East and West. Source: Fez to hold 11th Festival of Sufi Culture this month | MEO CASABLANCA – The eleventh edition of the … Continue reading →

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Rumi birth anniversary: Why the Sufi mystic-poet remains timeless | Free Press Journal

Posted on September 30, 2018 by Imam Salim Chishti

On the occasion of the Sufi mystic-poet’s, Jalaluddin Rumi, birth anniversary on September 30, here we revisits the reasons Rumi remains timeless

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Seminar: Sufi saint Shah-e-Hamadan remembered    | The Express Tribune

Posted on August 26, 2018 by Imam Salim Chishti

The semina­r was hosted by Presto­n Univer­sity Source: Seminar: Sufi saint Shah-e-Hamadan remembered    | The Express Tribune Islamabad: Speakers at a reference seminar on Sufi saint Shah-e-Hamadan said it was the need of the hour to follow the teachings of … Continue reading →

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Morocco’s ‘pilgrimage of the poor’ honours Sufi saint | GulfNews.com

Posted on August 22, 2018 by Imam Salim Chishti

[Note from Imam Salim: I have been here several years ago. Beautiful village and shrine, inhabited by beings seen and unseen. Spiritually uplifting.] Idris a descendant of Prophet Mohammad founded Morocco s first Islamic dynasty in the late eighth century

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