The words you speak become the house you live in,” said Hazrat Hafez of Shiraz (1325–1390), a revered Sufi mystic. Words have energy. The kind of words that a seeker uses carry significance for ...

At a burial shrine set in the rolling farmland of Pennsylvania, a group of Sufi devotees swayed in prayer, chanting the many names of God. The women, heads covered in loose shawls, sat on one side; ...

Can a devotional song erase the lines that divide people? Across history, music has often done what politics and borders ...

From the 9th century onwards, Sufism has encapsulated Islamic spirituality. This is the loving heart of Islam, still alive, thriving and widely influential today. It is not the Islam of ...