This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. More than 2,000 Kurdish Sufis gathered Saturday at religious shrines in ...
Most film festivals don’t offer the opportunity to become a barefooted time traveler to an ecstatic Sufi ritual, but The National Library of Israel’s recent Docu.Text 5 event, held August 18-22, ...
Drums pounded hard as a circle of men, their shoulder-length hair whirling through the air, spun their heads in a trance. In the middle of the circle, other men pierced their heads with knives and ...
GJAKOVE, Kosovo - Spring has arrived and dervishes in Kosovo are celebrating with dances and blood. At a small dome-shaped Tekke (holy place) in western Kosovo, a sheikh stepped down from a thick ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract With the entry of Muslim society into the modern era in the nineteenth century, Sufi beliefs and rituals became the focus of systematic debate ...
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