Sufi chanting troupes started bringing Islamic traditional zikr (remembrance of God) to the stages of Egypt in celebration of Moulid El-Nabi (Prophet Muhammad's birth). Moulid El-Nabi, commemorated on ...

For centuries, traditional Sufi chanting of the Near East has been used as a way of expressing religious devotion. Sufi music has also been appreciated in concerts and films in a form that is ...

The Cairo Opera House will organize a Ramadan evening hosted by the al-Hadra Sufi Chanting Troupe on Monday, 9:30 pm at the open theater. The night guarantees a special spiritual experience embodied ...

Sufism is the mystical path of Islam. It is the inner, meditative branch of the religion that's found in many different forms, in many different countries, and seldom makes news like its Sunni and ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Enter Baghdad's leading Sufi mosque on a recent evening and the first ...

BARZANJA, IRAQ - The dervishes swayed with the drumbeat, flinging their long hair and chanting “Allah, Allah.” Nearby others were showing, as one put it, their “passion for God”: one drove a skewer ...

The ancient spiritual practice of Sufism incorporates all kinds of activities, including music, to achieve a state in which the practitioner loses... Sufi Mystics Get A Modern Soundtrack Sufism is the ...