Clashes took place outside a Tehran police station between police and members of the dervish minority Five Iranian security personnel have been killed in clashes with members of a Sufi Muslim ...

dervishes. The word comes from the Arabic word faqr, which literally means “poverty”. They’re the ones who renounce worldly pursuits and dedicate their life to God. The Sufi masters ...

Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama is considering granting sovereign state status to the world headquarters of Bektashism, a ...

Historian William Dalrymple journeys to Morocco, Turkey, Syria and Pakistan to explore whirling dervishes, Qawwali singing and other forms of music sacred in Sufism, the branch of Islam that ...