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CAIRO: Sheikh Mohammad Shahawi, Chairman of the Committee of the Five Ways of Sufism and the man charged with organizing the leadership of the Sufi sect, has announced the establishment of a Global Sufi Council based in London to spread what he called “moderate and tolerant Islam.” The council will aim to confront the spread of the less tolerant Salafist and Wahhabi branches of the faith, which are expanding their influence internationally. The announcement of the new council comes after Shahawi’s wife, Magda Eid, established Egypt’s first female association for Sufi women.
Sufi council to combat extremism - Bikya Masr
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In the ancient cemetery of the desert town of Tarim , in south Yemen , a crowd of young women shrouded in black nylon are kneeling around a red clay gravestone.
CAIRO: In an unprecedented move for Egypt, Magda Eid, the founder of the first female association for Sufi women, announced in statements to local newspapers that the country’s security agencies requested a list of names of members and founders of the proposed association as a prerequisite step prior to the final submission of documents for its establishment.
Egypt: New Sufi women’s association - Bikya Masr
Morocco owes its image of a modern Muslim nation to Sufism, a spiritual and tolerant Islamic tradition that goes back to the first generations of Muslims and has sustained the religious, social and cultural cohesion of Moroccan society for centuries. Sufism provides answers to some of the most complex issues in the contemporary Muslim world, where youth comprise the majority of the population. Most Moroccans, young or old, practice one form of Sufism or another.
On Faith: Guest Voices: Sufism as Youth Culture in Morocco
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Can Sufi Islam counter the Taleban?
It's one o'clock in the morning and the night is pounding with hypnotic rhythms, the air thick with the smoke of incense, laced with dope.