Blues Communications will organise a three-day (January 27-29) International Sufi Music Festival 2015 at the Army Museum Ground, Bijoy Sharani, in the capital. Fifteen solo artistes and troupes from nine countries of the world will perform their distinctive patterns and styles of Sufi music at the festival. IFIC Bank is the title sponsor of the […]
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World Sufi Parliament formed to combat militancy, terrorism
World Sufi Parliament, an international organisation of Sufi scholars, yesterday began its journey with an aim to create public awareness to combat worldwide spread of terrorism and militancy in the name of Islam. At a press conference, organsied by the Sufi Unity for International Solidarity (SUFIS) at Chittagong Press Club, its Chairman Hazrat Shahsufi Moulana […]
Five Gounabadi Dervishes Arrested in Dezful
Court of Dezful (a southern city of Iran in Khuzestan province) issued an order to arrest five dervishes due to lack of bail on Tuesday, December 13, 2016. These five Gounabadi dervishes were indicted and prosecuted due to the objection to offensive and hostile speeches addressed by some young Mullahs against Sufi and mysticism. According […]
Elderly Sufi cleric was beheaded by ISIS savages in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula for ‘practising witchcraft’
Elderly Sufi cleric was beheaded by ISIS savages in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, 100-year-old had been kidnapped from in front of his home in Arish city, Images show a masked jihadist using a long sword to carry out beheading, ISIS brutes have beheaded a 100-year-old cleric – after accusing him of practising witchcraft. The frail prisoner, […]
French Professor Henry Corbin to be commemorated in Tehran
IBNA- At a ceremony, the Association of Cultural Works and Luminaries in Tehran will commemorate the prominent French philosopher, orientalist and scholar of the Islamic and Iranian studies, the late Professor Henry Corbin. French Professor Henry Corbin to be commemorated in TehranAccording to IBNA correspondent, quoting from the public relations office of the Association of Cultural […]
Blast Kills More Than 50 at Crowded Sufi Shrine in Pakistan
The Islamic State terrorist group claimed responsibility for Saturday evening’s bomb attack on a crowded Sufi shrine in Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province that killed at least 52 people and wounded around 100 others.Witnesses and doctors feared the death toll was expected to rise.Hundreds of people were present when the explosion occurred at the shrine about […]
Investigation of Six Dervishes in Dezful’s Country Court
On Wednesday, investigations and examinations regarding the charges laid against six Gonabadi Dervishes commenced in Dezful’s County court.According to Majzooban Noor reporter, Gholamreza Abarkar, Masood Majdi Nasab, Hassan Diapour, Mohammad Javad Babaii, Ghassem Mangari and Mohammad Maleki are the six Dervishes under investigation and charged for various allegations such as disturbance of peace, damaging public […]
UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran Ahmed Shaheed
October 2016 report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran: ,Ahmad Shaheed, UN’s special correspondence on human rights issues in Iran, has published his report for the period between 1/1/2016 till now. With the completion of Mr Shaheed’s assignment, Aseme Jahangir, human rights activist from Pakistan […]
Debate on Rumi’s Musical Expression
Culture, Art and Communication Research Center, affiliated to the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance will host a special seminar on ‘Rumi’s Musical Expression in Divan-e Shams’. The event is organized on the occasion of the national day, September 29, assigned to the 13th-century Persian poet, scholar, theologian and mystic Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, IBNA […]
Insulting the Dervishes Conflict in the Holy Defense Week Fair in Dezful
According to the correspondent of Majzooban Noor, during the holy Defense Week exhibition in the city of Dezful in Khuzestan province, a booth was allocated to depict insulting images toward the elders and masters of Nematollahi Gonabadi Order as well as to furnish an offensive lecture against mysticism and Sufism exposed with the severe and […]