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Sitting between the divergent landscapes of Europe and Asia, Turkey is blessed with many facets. with a rich history brought about by the Assyrians, Greeks, Thracians, Phrygians, Urartians, and Armenians, it is a melting pot of influences which refle

ArtAsiaPacific

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The Sufi poet Shaikh Abu Saeed Abil-Kheir (967–1049) urged his contemporaries: “To your mind feed understanding, to your heart, tolerance and compassion.” In the last few decades, Islam has been portrayed in the West as violent, warring, and extremis

The Christian Science Monitor

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Puritanical Salafist Muslims have attacked Sufi shrines and communities across the Arab world in a campaign to spread their influence. But in Tunisia, where national history and identity are intimately intertwined with Sufism, the Salafis have been t

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Baul singer Shariat Sarkar is accused of making comments which hurt the “religious sentiment” of Muslims. He says that there is no evidence forbidding music in Islam.

The Atlantic

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The plan to oust Rex Tillerson, the cost of the Republicans’ tax plan, “uptown” and “downtown” rats, and more

The Atlantic

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The attack on Al Rawdah mosque in the Sinai last Friday, during which Islamists claimed at least 305 lives, was quite possibly the deadliest terrorist atrocity in modern Egyptian history and one of the largest terrorist attacks worldwide. Because the

India Today

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Malik Muhammad Jayasi belonged to the Chishtia order of Sufis. His miracle legends have been part of popular memory. The most stunning miracle he performed the Padmawat has been around physically for five centuries. Jayasi composed his magnum o

The Paris Review

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I have lived outside Iran, my home country, for almost a decade, and I am yet to know what to call myself. Australia and the U.S. have been my hosts, so the labels I have at my disposal belong to the English vocabulary: immigrant, exilé, refugee, exp

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Literary Hub

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Rumi was a master of the one-liner, or, in the parlance of classical Persian poetry, pearls. Of all the one-line pearls he strung into ghazals—short, intense lyric poems about as long as sonnets—my personal favorite, at least this month, as they are

The Atlantic

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“To describe Sufis as ‘tolerant’ and ‘pluralistic’ may be true, but doing so presupposes that non-Sufi Muslims aren’t tolerant or pluralistic.”

The Atlantic

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No one has claimed responsibility for an attack on a mosque in Egypt. But no points should be awarded for guessing that the Islamic State is at fault.

The Atlantic

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Kanye West’s Year of Breaking Bad John Caramanica | The New York Times “Rupture has long been the axis around which Mr. West’s career has turned—where most artists seek to create smooth narratives about themselves and get everyone else to play along,

Dumbo Feather

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Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee Filmmaker, composer and Naqshbandi Sufi teacher Cameron Elliot Myrtle Vaughan-Lee Inverness, US January, 2020 I came to my conversation with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee in a grim mood. Australia was burning and choking in smoke and our

Cosmopolitan India

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Dr. Abdul Qadeer is an educationist, a philanthropist and an activist who seNes as a source of inspiration for young generation. He immeasurably contributed to the educational development of Bidar District through Shaheen Group of Institutions. Dr. A

The Atlantic

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The Hulu show’s second season explores how a misguided pursuit of religious redemption can reveal one’s truest, ugliest self.

The Christian Science Monitor

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To gain power, ISIS has a history of exploiting sectarian divides. But the sheer carnage of the attack on a mosque frequented by Sufi Muslims appears to be alienating ISIS's base, even among Sinai's downtrodden.

Art Almanac

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Khaled Sabsabi’s exhibition ‘A Promise’ comprises major works created over the past 20 years. Large-scale and immersive new media installations as well as intimate paintings are on view. The presentation is informed by the notion of ‘Tasawwuf’ a prac

NPR

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In the KPCC podcast "Tell Them, I Am," host and producer Misha Euceph aims to give Muslims a space to define their identities outside of stereotypes and broad generalizations.

FactCheck.org

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Q: Did Georgia “ban Muslim culture”? A: No. A headline making that claim is based on a proposed state bill that never became law. FULL ANSWER The Georgia legislature passed an anti-masking law in 1951 in order to subdue widespread intimid

ARCHAEOLOGY

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A well-preserved shipwreck lying in shallow water just a few hundred feet off the coast of Israel is providing new evidence of what life was like in the region when it sank, between the mid-seventh and mid-eighth century a.d. Volunteer student divers

TechLife News

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When it came to pursuing a scientific career, Tasneem Essader encountered forces pulling her in and pushing her away: She drew inspiration from her mother’s work in chemistry, but initial discouragement from her engineer father, who thought she shoul

Metal Hammer UK

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1. HE HAD A BAND CALLED...WAIT FOR IT...KILLERS! They released two studio albums in the early 90s. Turns out Paul didn’t totally leave Killers behind after all... 2. HE REFUSED TO GROW HIS HAIR WHILE IN IRON MAIDEN “I was one of the rare singers in h

NPR

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The government says 305 people were killed Friday, in the deadliest attack in the country's modern history. A Muslim movement that ISIS views as heresy seems to have been the target.

Foreign Policy Magazine

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RELIGION COMES IN countless forms, depending either on the soil from which that religion arose or the soil in which it was planted. What we call Christianity in America is not what Guatemalans call Christianity. It’s not what Iraqis call Christianity

The Christian Science Monitor

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His trip is part of a larger attempt by Christian, Muslim, and Jewish leaders since 9/11 to define the common theological threads that can repel violence and protect religious minorities.

Post South Africa

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THE article, “Sri Lanka could ban burqa, close Islamic schools” (the POST, March 17-21), refers. The entire exercise stinks of human hatred and of Islam. The road to love, compassion and tolerance has completely lost its direction, giving in to a con

Los Angeles Times

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CAIRO - The assailants arrived in five all-terrain vehicles: between 25 and 30 gunmen clad in military-style camouflage pants and black T-shirts and carrying an Islamic State flag. They positioned themselves at the main gate of a Sufi mosque and in i

Apple Magazine

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When it came to pursuing a scientific career, Tasneem Essader encountered forces pulling her in and pushing her away: She drew inspiration from her mother’s work in chemistry, but initial discouragement from her engineer father, who thought she shoul

TIME

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WE WANT TO BELIEVE WE’RE ALL BASICALLY the same and want the same things, but what if we’re not? Islam, in both theory and practice, is exceptional in how it relates to politics. Because of its outsize role in law and governance, Islam has been—and