Muslim Tatars: The patriots practising a ‘light version of Islam’ | Europe | Al Jazeera

A mosque in Bohoniki, northeastern Poland, where inter-faith prayers take place [Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska/Al Jazeera]

A mosque in Bohoniki, northeastern Poland, where inter-faith prayers take place [Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska/Al Jazeera]

Muslims have lived in Poland for 600 years, but there is a fear that they will gradually abandon their culture.

by Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska

Source: Muslim Tatars: The patriots practising a ‘light version of Islam’ | Europe | Al Jazeera

The year was 1395. Continue reading

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

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 Sufis and Saints. Continue reading

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

Women pray by the tomb of Moulay Idriss I, the founder of Morocco’s former ruling Idrisid dynasty.

[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 Continue reading

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India’s first Sufi research centre to start in Patna | TwoCircles.net

Source: India’s first Sufi research centre to start in Patna | TwoCircles.net

By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net

[Note from Imam Salim: This looks very interesting to me, would love to learn more and possibly visit at some point.]

Patna: A National Research and Teaching Centre for Sufism and comparative religion is soon going to start in Mitan Ghat, Patna, capital city of Bihar state. Continue reading

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‘Risalo’: Sufi poetry is luminous in Sindhi poet Shah Abdul Latif’s works

Christopher Shackle’s translations bring a monumental body of work out of Sindhi, where readers are dwindling, for the world to read.

Source: ‘Risalo’: Sufi poetry is luminous in Sindhi poet Shah Abdul Latif’s works

The Sindhi diaspora, whether in India or around the world, has a warm spot for the name Shah Abdul Latif, an 18th-century Sufi poet from Sindh, Pakistan, and a contemporary of the better known Punjabi Sufi poet Bulle Shah. Continue reading

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