The Sufi disconnect

Edit DNA India 28 Mar 2016
-->. Many members of Muslim middle class with their rationalist zeal are sceptical of mysticism ... There is the concomitant myth that Sufis are icons of India’s multi-religious, pluralist and secular heritage ... Then there is the multi-volume work of Sheikh Muhammad Ikram, which traces the life and works of influential Muslim thinkers like Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi, Shah Waliullah and Syed Ahmad Barelvi, all of them in Urdu ... Info ... ....

3 brave ladies who fought for equality in Iran — even if Iran is still ...

Edit The Daily Beast 23 Jun 2015
One was strangled by her executioners with a silk scarf, and the other two were masters of the written word. Nina Ansary. 06.23.15. The insistent cry for women’s freedom has been heard for hundreds of years in Iran ... Upon marrying her cousin at the age of 14, she moved to Karbala, Iraq, where she pursued the teachings of Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa’i, a philosopher and religious thinker, and his successor, Siyyid Kazim-i Rashti ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... ....
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