For centuries, traditional Sufi chanting of the Near East has been used as a way of expressing religious devotion. Sufi music has also been appreciated in concerts and films in a form that is ...

Feb. 26, 7pm - 9pm and Feb. 27, 11:30am - 5pm and Feb. 28, 11:30 - 5pm Adnan is internationally known for his "Rapid Method", a teaching method always adapted to the people, place and time, which uses ...

A friend passed on to me a must-listen Fresh Air interview with Jason Hamacher, an American punk drummer who went to Syria just before the war to record ancient Sufi and Christian liturgical music.

AL AAROUI, Morocco, September 5, 2025 (EZ Newswire) -- The air hummed, not with modern electric currents, but with a mesmerizing symphony of devotional chants. The invocations rose and fell, ...

Sufism, the mystical thread running through Islam, has a rich musical tradition that's explored in "One Thousand and One Voices," a captivating feature-length documentary from Tunisian helmer Mahmoud ...

Jason Hamacher wasn't trained as a photographer, a musicologist or a member of a religious community. The former Frodus drummer simply felt... Before War, A Punk Drummer Preserved Syrian Chants Before ...

“As soon as he started to grow, he saw us all whirling, his uncles and cousins. When he first started to walk when he was about one year old, he started to whirl. I started to teach him how to move ...

PRIZREN, Kosovo (AP) — For an Islamic dervish order in southern Kosovo, it's time for the annual celebration to mark the new year, the birthday of the sect's founder and spring. That means holding a ...

In the rectangular courtyard outside the Tijani zawiya, a Sufi centre in Fez, half a dozen groups of men sit in circles around aluminium trays filled with flat bread, fruits, milk and thick harira veg ...