Dr Ines Aščerić-Todd is a Lecturer in Arabic and Middle Eastern Cultures at the University of Edinburgh Sufism – Islamic mysticism – encompasses a set of beliefs and practices used by many Muslims as a way of drawing closer to God and attaining personal experience or knowledge of the Divine. Sufism has a long history…
Fitzroy Morrissey is an Oriental Studies Graduate of Oxford University. He has travelled extensively in the Islamic world, and is the author of A Sufi for a week. He is currently studying Persian as a graduate student. Here, he discusses the relationship between Sufism in Central Asia and the post-Soviet states. For over half a…
Robert Twigger is an acclaimed travel writer who has written on Japan and the Nile. Here, as a guest blogger for the Asian Affairs Weblog, he hails the 50th anniversary of the publication of Idries Shah’s The Sufis: It is 50 years since the publication of Idries’ Shah’s ground-breaking The Sufis, with its introduction by…
