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Schimmel’s work dealt with all aspects of Islam, including calligraphy, Islamic art and literature and Islamic mysticism—specifically Sufism. She wrote more than 50 books on diverse topics ranging from the role of cats in Islamic literature to naming in the Islamic world...
...South End was never limited to Christianity; 1843 witnessed East Prussian Jews building the first synagogue in Boston. The religious quilt continued to expand as Methodists, Baptists and Congregationalists joined Catholics in establishing worship centers. The eclecticism continues today with a center of the mystic faith of Sufism opposite a nail salon on Harrison Avenue...
...first time in eight years, Attiya is struck by the number of jihad slogans scrawled on the roadside walls. They weren't there before, but Kashmiri militant groups now recruit fighters from all over Pakistan, even in the remotest areas. Sind province is known for its mellowness; Sufism, the most tolerant brand of Islam, flourishes in the numerous shrines. So it is jarring to see the invasion of graffiti along Sind's national highway, which cuts through vast fields of cotton, wheat and sugarcane, exhorting Muslims to kill Hindus and Westerners. VICTORY OR MARTYRDOM reads a sign by Lashkar...
...corridors inside are long, green and dimly lit; the walls are bare except for a spray of handwritten signs and arrows and random words scrawled on them, often in several handwritings. One of these appears every few yards: "Polish, Hebrew, Chinese." "Sufism, Hebrew, Polish, Czech." "Polish, Chinese, Hebrew, Tech Writing." "Turkish in 6 Divinity...
Both Sunni and Shi'ite Islam include Sufism, a mystical movement whose adherents seek to serve God not simply through obedience to the law but by striving for union with him through meditation and ritual. Sufism is considered suspect by fundamentalist Muslims like the puritanical Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia, because it allows for the veneration of awliya-roughly the equivalent of Christianity's saints. Islam also has spawned a number of heretical offshoots. One is the Alawi sect, a Shi'ite minority group to which most of Syria's leaders belong. The Alawis believe...