You must see these Sufi dervishes go whirl round and round in great devotion. |
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And the Sufi sheik talks about when you are chanting, I becomes we, and it's no longer the I, and that that's what it's about. |
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There's clearly a history and you know, for being beyond words, I have thousands of Sufi treatises written by Sufis. |
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Chapter 3, on pre-Christian Egyptian monasticism, along with a paragraph on Sufi mysticism, is too sketchy and vague to be of much help. |
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Guru Nanak Dev, founder of the Sikhs, is said to have been influenced by both Hindu and Sufi saints. |
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The Sufi dance, zikr, danced in a circle accompanied by chanting and percussion to reach a trance state, also is still practiced. |
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According to local traditions, the great Sufi saint had offered namaz at this site. |
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He even started a Sufi cult under his name that became also a place for mystics from different faiths too. |
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Known as Sufi, they opted for solitude and abnegation, renouncing physical comforts. |
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Similarly, the Turkish Sufi traditions and tariqas, which played important roles in Turkish social and political history, barely register here. |
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Sufis are typically more peaceful and less rigid than Salafis or Wahhabis, though there are militantly anti-Western Sufi leaders, as well. |
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In many Sufi traditions, the tekke is the place of devotion and worship for dervishes of a particular Sufi Order. |
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The different Sufi orders were characterized by the style of their turbans and the folds of their gowns. |
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In fact, of course, the Arabs' contributions to the world have been crucial, from algebra to the lateen sail, from Sufi spirituality to key discoveries in astronomy. |
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The apotropaic powers of Arabic letters, phrases, verses, and writing themselves are central to Mouride belief systems and, indeed, Sufi mysticism more generally. |
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I'm really moved by gospel, the songs of marabouts, the atmosphere of Sufi villages and the voice of Umm Kalthumm. |
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Sufi teachings and poetry abounds with images of mirrors, and in fact, the Sufis believe that all of creation is a mirror of the Divine. |
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Members of the Banu Sa'd al-Din, a prominent Sufi family in Damascus, made talismans and charms which could reportedly heal the sick and cure the insane. |
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Traditional Sufi imams might once have dissuaded these young men from seeking out the Syrian battlefield. |
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In 2004 I was in Swat, I was researching on the causes of failure of the first revolution attempt by Sufi Muhammad. |
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Where else would you go from Shakespeare to contemporary politics to v.s. Naipaul and then Sufi musi? |
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It made reference to the situation facing Shi'a and Baha'i, as well as Sufi Muslims. |
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Last year saw the 800th anniversary of the birth of Mevlana Rumi, an eminent Sufi thinker, humanist and world-renowned poet. |
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Here's a page on Sufi music, including qawwali and the Sabri Brothers. |
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Nor, during the centuries-old process of Islamisation that they led, have the Sufi orders always insisted that they should be. |
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In addition, a sacred word or phrase from the literature of the Sufi Masters or the Holy Qur'an is repeated in melodic tones, like a chant. |
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He agrees with other Sufi theoreticians insofar as he sees man as a microcosmos, containing everything that exists in the macrocosmos. |
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He started to practice transcendental meditation, read books by Jesuit priests and Sufi poetry. |
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Only in a street nearby, beyond a Sufi shrine, do you find hints of the great man. |
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In this story, the hoopoe who leads the birds is used as an allegory of a Sufi master leading his pupils to enlightenment. |
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Ottoman Turks wrested the shrine from the Franciscans in the 16th century and gave it to Sufi mystics. |
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It is also home to the famous Makli Hills, a renowned burial place for some 125,000 Sufi saints. |
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Under huge tents covering the courtyard, groups of men surrounded Sufi prayers, singing, speaking or in a trance. |
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Cosmos brought together a whole range of artists from diverse backgrounds,including a Sufi whirling dervish. |
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Much of Sufi poetry, love legends included, is an allegorical statement against the established order and the bigotry of institutionalized religion. |
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Ansar Dine, a group believed to have links to al-Qaeda, said that the city's Sufi shrines were idolatrous. |
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They claim worshipping at graves and shrines is un-Islamic and idolatrous and abhor the Sufi use of music and dance. |
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In July several tombs of Sufi saints were pickaxed and pounded to rubble by Al Qaeda-linked Islamist groups. |
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Baul music represents a particular type of folk song, carrying influences of Hindu bhakti movements as well as the shuphi, a form of Sufi song. |
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Added later during Jahangir's reign, the dargah of the Sufi saint Salim Chisti was designed in sandstone during Akbar's reign, but was eventually executed wholly in marble. |
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I hadn't thought of this in the first go-round, but your mention of the Sufi story about looking for lost keys under the lamppost reminded me of this story. |
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They are usually associated with a particular Coptic or Sufi saint, but are often celebrated by Egyptians irrespective of creed or religion. |
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Sun Charkhe Di Mithi Mithi Kook is a Sufi song in the Punjabi language inspired by the traditional spinning wheel. |
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Concurrent with the spread of Sufi convents in Iran, a Shiitisation of Sufi beliefs occurred regarding the theory of sainthood in particular. |
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We had a nondenominational wedding, with a bunch of great Sufi musicians really wailing, and my wildly enthusiastic mother in attendance. |
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The Qawwali is Sufi music and Qawwal means word in Arabic, which represents the divine voice. |
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In South Asia, the Sufi music tradition is called Qawwali, which too is devoted to the love of God, prophet and his companions. |
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Vacillatory series of mystical Sufi poets and writers always love her and believe that love is a property called meta-material. |
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He is the eponym of the Bektashi Sufi order and is considered as one of the principal teachers of Alevism. |
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Joy's work is inspired by her training as a leader and healing conductor in the Sufi Order and her practice as a craniosacral and music therapist. |
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The Sufi poets Shah Abdul Latif, Bulleh Shah, Mian Muhammad Bakhsh, and Khawaja Farid enjoy considerable popularity in Pakistan. |
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By tolerating a Sufi mosque near Ground Zero, Americans would send a powerful message to the millions of Muslims who have no taste for the excesses of extremists. |
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He also intoned, in pealing sustained lines, a Sufi poem by his father. |
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A Sufi then carries on his return journey through the vegetable kingdom. |
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Prior to this exercise can be an exercise of free dance in which each random lap dance imitating a Sufi or a ball game where there is laughter and release blockages. |
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True, the brutish and gaudily materialistic Kadyrov regime has little in common with the intellectual Sufi tradition which attracts many Westerners. |
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As a Sufi mystic tells his hearers that they are ducks being brought up by hens, they have to realize that their destiny is to swim, not try to be chickens. |
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The recent departure of the hated Ethiopians and the Shabab's own record of bullying the impious and smashing the gravestones of Sufi saints have lost it some support. |
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Bauls are a very heterogeneous group, with many sects, but their membership mainly consists of Vaishnava Hindus and Sufi Muslims. |
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Meanwhile, In the Shrine of the Heart: Popular Classics from Bukhara and Beyond purveys Sufi love-songs, some rumbustiously cheerful, but many inhabiting dark and mysterious realms. |
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The proper Sufi seeks to attain this state through rigorous disciplines, of which dhikr, the remembrance of God, by reciting or meditating on his name, is the most common. |
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The growth during the 16th and 17th centuries of this type of poetry, which was intended to be sung in the dhikr ceremony, was a function of the monopoly over mysticism held by the Sufi brotherhoods of that era. |
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As for the students-murids, Sufi sheikhs say that not anyone wanting to become a Sufi can become it, not everyone can comprehend the Sufi teachings. |
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The Eastern and African Sufi orders are capable of using recitation, music, dance and breathing techniques to transport themselves and their audience into states of ecstacy and union with the divine. |
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Sufi ideas thus permeated the hearts of all those who hearkened to poetry. |
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Traditionally the ghazal had dealt with love and wine, motifs that, in their association with ecstasy and freedom from restraint, lent themselves naturally to the expression of Sufi ideas. |
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Yet the Arab canon extends far wider, linking the tribal bards of pre-Islamic Arabia to Sufi mystics, bawdy medieval jesters and angst-ridden modernists. |
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The Safavids Shi'ified Iran in the 16th century, as existing Sufi and Sunni orders drifted into Shiism and became increasingly militarised and very dangerous to the neighbouring Ottomans. |
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Amir Khosrau founded the style of Sufi music known as Qawwali, made famous in the recent past by the great Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and some claim he invented the Indian tabla drums as well. |
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Akbar also developed and implemented the largely Sufi doctrine of sulhikul, under which all religions were equal, such that the festivals of all religious communities were to be publicly observed. |
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We work with a dream analyst and a Sufi dancer, for example. |
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Sunnis are largely Shafi'is or Salafis, and there are also many Sufi Muslims there. |
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A number of Sufi orders were widespread throughout the island, the Bektashi order being the most prevalent, possessing at least five tekkes. |
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Popular Sufi culture is centred on Thursday night gatherings at shrines and annual festivals that feature Sufi music and dance. |
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The earliest substantiated evidence of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree is from the 15th century, in the Sufi monasteries of Arabia. |
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A large number of Sunni Muslims are members of Sufi brotherhoods. |
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The latter have long since carried the day against the allegorically credulous Graves and his ignorant or unscrupulous informant, the Sufi mystagogue votary Omar Ali-Shah. |
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Housed in madrasas, mosques, Sufi convents, mausolea, and hospitals, these libraries contained works on the religious and rational sciences as well as literature and poetry. |
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Majority of the Muslims in Senegal are Sunni with Sufi influences. |
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The Sufi orders, the Tijaniyah and the Qadiriyyah, have great influence not only in the country, but in Morocco, Algeria, Senegal and other neighborhood countries as well. |
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He was recognised as the king of a sovereign nation-state by the UN, and as hief of the Senussi Order, a moderate Sufi movement in Sunnism called al-Senussiyah. |
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Early in this period, Egyptians began to blend their new faith with indigenous beliefs and practices, leading to various Sufi orders that have flourished to this day. |
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K Foods Karachi, Faisalabad Oil Refinery, Shakarganj Food Products Lahore, Quice Food Lahore, Sufi Group of companies, Qarshi Group and Chappal Traders Karachi. |
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The shrine and tomb of the famed 13th century poet and philosopher, Jalaluddin Rumi, who founded the Mevlevi Sufi brotherhood, is one of the most popular attractions. |
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Sufi shaykhs, by personal contact with the sultan or through their protective presence within his dominions, were seen as providing a sanction for rulership. |
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The Ajmer Dargah Committee looks after the dargah of the sufi saint Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti. |
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Yacouba Sylla was the leader of a branch of the Hamallists, a radical sufi community that formed within the tijaniya during the inter-war period in French West Africa. |
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