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Timbuktu is still recovering from the damage done by a Muslim radical to their World Heritage s
ites.
Despite a court ruling he...

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Pakistan has been celebrating the great Sufi saint and mystic poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhit
tai.
This year's Urs...

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Pakistan has been celebrating the great Sufi saint and mystic poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhit
tai.
This year's Urs...

Egyptian newspapers were on Saturday dominated by the militant attack on a mosque in northern Sinai that killed 305 people and wounded over 120 others.

Worshippers were attending Friday prayers in the...

The head of Egypt's Government Information service on Friday called on the Muslim Brotherhood to condemn the attack on a mosque in Sinai in which 235 people were killed.

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Muslims in Sudan have been celebrating Moulid, the birthday of the prophet Muha
mmad.
The streets of Omdurman were filled with...

Every year the city of Konya in Turkey organises the Whirling Dervishes Festival to commemorate the death of Jalal al Din Rumi on the 17th of December

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Thousands celebrate the birthday of one of Prophet Muhammad's granddaugh
ters.
The Sufi celebration saw crowds flock to the shrine of Sayida Zainab
in...

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Traditional Iranian martial arts that are part callisthenic and part gymnastics are totally hypnotic to wa
tch.
The...

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Traditional Iranian martial arts that are part callisthenic and part gymnastics are totally hypnotic to wa
tch.
The...

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Worshippers from the Mouride Brotherhood part of the Sufi strand of Islam that predominates in Senegal share their thoughts at the inauguration of a huge mosque in Dakar claimed to be the largest in West Africa (Footage by AFPTV via...

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Accused of defaming Islam and targeted by religious radicals -- a growing force in Bangladesh -- popular Sufi singer Rita Dewan spent months in hiding to escape death threats (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Bullet holes scar the minaret of the Sufi mosque in Libya's Zliten, but followers of the Muslim mystical tradition are working to renovate and preserve their heritage (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Una treintena de personas, entre ellas varios niños, murieron y más de 40 resultaron heridas en una explosión en una mezquita sufí del norte de Afganistán durante el rezo del viernes, un día después de dos sangrientos atentados...

"The sun rotates, the moon rotates, let me rotate too," says Onurcan Bayram, in his tall cylindrical Mevlevi cap, referred to as a sikke (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Iraqi Sufi Muslim Kurds take part in a ritual ceremony to mark Prophet Mohammed's birthday in the Iraqi Kurdish town of Akra, some 500km north of Iraq's capital Baghdad (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)