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Few topics are as interesting and contentious as the role, status and future of Muslim communities in the West, specifically Western Europe, North America and Australia. Sadek Hamid’s Sufis, Salafis and Islamists: The Contested Ground of British Islamic Activism, marks a sober, rigorous and authoritative contribution the debate.
Mahan Abedin is a research journalist specialising in Islamic affairs.
On 8 April 2007, members of the Wahhabi-oriented Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama’ah and members of the Tijaniyyah Sufi order clashed at Ejura, in the Ashanti region of Ghana, over doctrinal differences.
This article was originally published in Islam in Africa Newsletter,
Volume 2 (2007), Number 3 (July 2007). Islam in Africa Newsletter is a publication of PRISM (www.e-prism.org).
© 2007 PRISM – Dr. Moshe Terdman. Republished with permission. Religioscope thanks Reuven Paz / PRISM for permission to republish.
Pakistan has set up a National Council for Promotion of Sufism to project its soft power and improve its image in the West. President Pervez Musharraf is patron-in-chief of the body, said a notification on Thursday.
© 2006 IANS India Private Limited, New Delhi. Posted on Religioscope with permission. — Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) is India’s first multinational and multilingual wire service. Website: www.ians.in. Subscription enquiries: contact IANS (mention Religioscope).
In the wake of a visit between 15 and 20 May to the Uzbek city of Bukhara (500 kilometres or 300 miles west of Tashkent), the “capital” of the Sufi Naqshbandi order in Central Asia, Keston has learnt that currently the Uzbek authorities are not simply not opposing the spread of the Naqshbandi order but, […]
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