Monday, 4th September, 2017 Study Retreat led by Jane Clark Monday September 4th (7pm) to Sunday September 10th (2pm).  The Fusus al Hikam, or ‘The Ringstones of Wisdom’, is a major work by the great Andulusian mystical writer, Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi, and is considered to contain the essence of his teachings. An extended exposition on […]

  CORBIN, HENRY (b. Paris 14 April 1903, d. Paris 7 October 1978), French philosopher and orientalist best known as a major interpreter of the Persian role in the development of Islamic thought. CORBIN’S LIFE AND THOUGHT Corbin was the son of Henri Arthur, a business executive, and Eugénie Fournier Corbin. He was graduated from […]

International Sufi Festival India is an annual program to promote the teaching of Sufism and disseminate its knowledge. Since its 4th session in 2014, it is taking place at Ajmer and Noida Film City in Delhi after accomplishment of three-major International Sufi Festival in Ajmer The festival basically aimed to focus on spirituality by spreading […]

The erasure of Islam from Rumi’s poetry started long before Coldplay got involved. Omid Safi, a professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at Duke University, says that it was in the Victorian period that readers in the West began to uncouple mystical poetry from its Islamic roots. Translators and theologians of the time could […]

Meditation is a practice where an individual operates or trains the mind or induces a mode of consciousness, either to realize some benefits or for the mind to simply acknowledge its content without becoming identified with that content,or as an end in itself.The term meditation refers to a broad variety of practices that includes techniques […]

‏When my sister developed cancer earlier this year, I was anxious to discover the metaphysical cause of the disease.‏I have always believed that disease manifests on an energetic or emotional level first and then onto a physical level. In an energetic Universe, this theory holds true for the creation of everything and everyone. Louise Hay, […]

Sufism (tasawwuf) is an Islamic modality that emphasizes self-purification and the attainment of spiritually advanced states through the assumption of specific practices and disciplines, typically through affiliation with a particular brotherhood and its leader, a sheikh. Most Somalis today are at least nominal members of a Sufi order and members of the same Sufi order […]

Mevlâna Museum The Mevlâna Museum, located in Konya, Turkey, is the mausoleum of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a Persian people Sufi mystic also known as Mevlâna or Rumi. It was also the dervish lodge (tekke) of the Mevlevi order, better known as the whirling dervishes.Sultan ‘Ala’ al-Din Kayqubad, the Seljuk sultan who had invited Mevlâna […]

THE new age movement heralded by Theosophy in the late 19th century, is at last bearing meaningful fruit here in the 21st. “Theosophy is indeed the life, the indwelling spirit which makes every true reform a vital reality,” wrote H. P. Blavatsky the movement’s inspired original spokesperson. “Theosophy is Universal Brotherhood, the very foundation as […]