sufis

Named after iconic sufis of these areas, these projects aim at mainstreaming madrassah-enrolled children.

Saskia Sassen: Pakistan's Floods Reveal an Emerging Geopolitics 2010

In nineteenth-century Afghanistan and elsewhere in the Muslim world, sayyids, saints, and sufis received monetary offerings from ordinary people and political elites in return for a variety of blessings, consultations, and ritual performances.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

Of iffy gurus and mystic sufis Khushwant Singh HT December 05, 2008

Archive 2009-03-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

The sufis have a word 'baraka', which means the ability to transmit spiritual energy through verbal or non-verbal means.

A lesbian, a bi-sexual, a wrist-slasher or a good laugh? 2009

Of iffy gurus and mystic sufis Khushwant Singh HT December 05, 2008

They do not have to wrestle with new ideas Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

I whispered permutations of wonder, told her secrets only the sufis know.

She tolled me 2009

I whispered permutations of wonder, told her secrets only the sufis know.

She tolled me 2009

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Archive 2005-11-01 Sharon Bakar 2005

You recognize the equality of women as a prerequisite to be at the table, and that can go for the baptists as much as it does the sufis, so far as I'm concerned.

"Mrs Gibbons technically faces three charges - insulting Islam, inciting religious hatred and contempt for religious beliefs..." Ann Althouse 2007

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Living Through Love Sharon Bakar 2005