Word: sufis
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...talents were considered too foreign to make the jump to Europe or America. A handful of Indian directors and actors are escaping that mold, and now Rahman is breaking out too. The composer has long been a musical magpie, borrowing freely from an array of traditions: South Asian, Sufi, Irish folk, rock, reggae, even ragtime. And the outside world is discovering that beneath the tabla and synthesized sitar, his music isn't strictly subcontinental. "The sound of Middle Earth has to be a unique sound," says West End producer Kevin Wallace, who chose Rahman to score The Lord...
...violence since 1989, largely in the Kashmiri valley. Moderate Kashmiris warn that the past few years in the valley have seen a rapid spread of the hard-line Islamic faith of Wahhabism?the chosen creed of Osama bin Laden, among others?in an area previously dominated by the moderate Sufi tradition. Yasin Malik, 38, a former militant commander who now campaigns for peace and independence, warns that Kashmir's latest generation of militants might simply refuse to give up the gun. These young insurgents are not fighting for a cause, says Malik, but to avenge "a murdered father or brother...
...backtracked, checking how my question had been rendered into Kurdish, and whether the gesture had anything to do with the answer. In fact, the translation was right on, and the gesture was a succinct analysis of Ansar theology: They had approached Islam ass-forward. Ansar's philosophy, explained one Sufi, was one of "hate, hate, hate...
...powerful motivator. Until the clerics made common cause against America, the six hard-line party leaders were rivals. They stormed each other's mosques and split hairs over ideological disputes dating back to Islam's early days. Their differences were stark: some worship at the tombs of local Sufi saints; others dismiss that practice as blasphemy. Most of the parties want their women veiled from head to toe, although more liberal groups argue that it ought to be the woman's choice. The personalities of the parties' leaders have also clashed. Qazi Hussain Ahmed from the Jamaat-e-Islami...
...Rumi himself were somehow zapped, robes and all, into the present day and given a look at the vast spiritual Starbucks where he is the most popular flavor of the moment, what would he make of it all? Very likely he would echo what Kabir Helminski, a practicing Sufi and another popular contemporary Rumi translator, has said about attempts to siphon off the insights of Rumi and other Sufi sages without addressing their Islamic context: "We cannot steal the fire. We must enter...