: a Muslim mystic
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That period saw the revival of several Sufi orders that came to be associated with new social classes, including industrial magnates, newly urbanizing artisans, and shop owners.
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Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
Islamic graffiti identified as part of the project includes an inscription, and a drawing of a scorpion, that honor the Sufi cleric Sheikh al-ʿAǧamī, who was appointed to serve as the first religious overseer of Ottoman Jerusalem.
—Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Fahad Shah In Srinagar city, Jammu and Kashmir’s summer capital, papier-mâché art adorns the walls and ceilings of everything from Sufi shrines and mosques to homes and hotels.
—Fahad Shah, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr. 2025
The aspiration to build a museum dedicated to Sufi art and culture originated in the 1970s with Sufi master Hazrat Shah Maghsoud Angha (1916-1980), 41st master of the Maktab Tarighat Oveyssi (MTO) Shahmaghsoudi School of Islamic Sufism.
—Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
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Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
Islamic graffiti identified as part of the project includes an inscription, and a drawing of a scorpion, that honor the Sufi cleric Sheikh al-ʿAǧamī, who was appointed to serve as the first religious overseer of Ottoman Jerusalem.
—Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Fahad Shah In Srinagar city, Jammu and Kashmir’s summer capital, papier-mâché art adorns the walls and ceilings of everything from Sufi shrines and mosques to homes and hotels.
—Fahad Shah, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr. 2025
The aspiration to build a museum dedicated to Sufi art and culture originated in the 1970s with Sufi master Hazrat Shah Maghsoud Angha (1916-1980), 41st master of the Maktab Tarighat Oveyssi (MTO) Shahmaghsoudi School of Islamic Sufism.
—Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
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