In the city of Islamabad, dominated by dull bureaucrats and ambitious politicians, live many unsung heroes of the land. One such hero is the scholar-activist Dr. Ayesha Leghari, the champion of the ...

The Tijaniyyah branch of Sufism in Islam had a larger influence on Islamic thought than many historians believe, Northwestern University Professor Zachary Wright said at an event Friday afternoon in ...

When someone betrays Allāh in secret, Allāh will expose his true self to everyone,” said the influential 9th-century Persian ...

A Small Death is a fictionalised account of the life of a Sufi scholar and philosopher, Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi, from his birth in Muslim Spain in the 12th century until his death in Damascus. Saudi ...

Ibn Arabi, Spain’s brightest Muslim mystic also known as “Shaikh-e-Akbar” (the greatest Sufi master) wrote in his sacred book in Arabic Tarjuman al-ashwaq (Translation of Desires): “My heart is ...

This is the first work of criticism to read Abdelwahab Meddeb as a poet. Self-consciously indeterminate from philosophical and poetic perspectives, Meddeb's poetry is indebted to European, especially ...

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Interview with Novelist Mohammed Hasan Alwan Saudi Arabia 'Might Become a Totally Different Country' Mohammed Hasan Alwan, the winner of the 2017 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, tells DER ...