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 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 ...

The Sufi were particularly fond of coffee, as it aided them in their meditations, which often occurred in the long hours of the night.

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 the recent massacre in Egypt.

From the thirteenth century onward, coffee was spread throughout the Muslim world by the Sufi orders of Southern Arabia. It aided spiritual concentration. It was brought first to Ethiopia and ...

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.

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 ...

Sufi Islam is a small sect that is not politically active. And yet Sufi shrines have been repeatedly targeted by radical groups during upheavals in North Africa and elsewhere.

However, another just-so story persists, which is that the Sufi’s word, qahwah, referred to the Kaffa province of southwestern Ethiopia, where bushes of coffee also grew in the wild.

He discovers that coffee was popularised by Sufi mystics in the Yemen who used the drink as a way of energising themselves during their nocturnal devotions.