Both forms have transcended their ritual contexts and their traditional audiences, yet, in both cases, the original spirit of devotion and energy remain intact. One does not have to be a Sufi , a ...

Prayers and melodic chants reverberated across Dakar’s Yoff neighborhood as thousands of Sufi Muslim followers from the ...

This excerpt from ‘Sufi Rituals and Practices: Experiences from South Asia, 1200–1450’ by Kashshaf Ghani has been published with permission from Oxford University Press.