Review of ‘Needle at the Bottom of the Sea: Bengali Tales from the Land of the Eighteen Tides’ (University of California Press, 2023) translated by Tony K. Stewart The stories vary in length, and ...

“There is no God but God,” they re­peat, every syllable rolling into the next without breath. Minutes go by, hours. Such recitations, a pillar of Sufism, are reserved by some communities for special ...

For Feride Funda G. Gencaslan, a Turkish expat in Germany and the chairperson of community space Sufi Zentrum Rabbaniyah in Berlin, Sufism is the only form of expression that aesthetically symbolises ...

Amongst the chaos of Dhaka city lie countless Sufi shrines (or mazars)—the tombs of Sufi spiritual leaders who have inhabited the country since the 12th century—places where men and women gather to ...

Kashmiri Sufi folk singer Gulzar Ahmed Ganaie carries a huge pain in his heart caused by the brutal murder of his younger brother at the hands of militants but there is no note of revenge in his ...

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