Lawyer Farshid Yadollahi was 18 years old when he had a spiritual dream that led him on a search for the truth and resulted in his becoming a Sufi. Seventeen years later, Yadollahi says that whatever ...

In Pico Iyer’s new novel, Abandon, a character laments the poor turnout for a lecture on Islamic theology. If the lecture’s listing had used the word “Sufi,” he thinks to himself, “there’d have been ...

President Ahmadinejad (left) has led the Islamic republic in an increasingly conservative direction (file photo) (AFP) Human rights activists have expressed concern over the arrest on 13 February of ...