At the Sufi Coffee Shop in Mountain View, half-pound batches of coffee beans are roasted daily, and each cup of coffee is individually ground and dripped to order. Approximately 16 kinds of coffee ...

The Sufi were particularly fond of coffee, as it aided them in their meditations, ... This is not to say that coffee was without controversy. Islam forbids the use of wine or intoxicants, ...

The story of Kaldi the goat herder discovering coffee by accident is a common tale. Religious studies scholar Jamel Velji explores a few more origin stories for one of the world’s favorite ...

In Islam, coffee even became associated with the angelic orders. According to one Persian legend, the angel Gabriel administered it to a sleepy Mohammad (it gave Mohammad the strength to unhorse ...

Abdul-Rehman Malik travels to Turkey to explore the relationship between Islam and coffee. The drink first popularised by Sufi mystics in the Yemen would go on to change the world. Show more ...

11/25/2017 November 25, 2017. Sufism is mystical and ascetic form of Islam practiced by tens of millions of Muslims. But radical Islamists have taken to targeting Sufis in brutal attacks, such as ...

Seyyed Hossein Nasr’s latest book on Sufism, The Garden of Truth: The Promise of Sufism, Islam’s Mystical Tradition (p. 56) reveals the mystical branch of Islam.

The mystical form of Islam espoused by Sufi saints for hundreds of years continues to thrive in Pakistan despite opposition from religious hardliners and the authorities. As the sun sets on a Thursday ...