Samina Quraeshi on sufism in the sub-continent In each part of the world where Islam has spread and taken root, the religion has adapted to its context in geographic, cultural and theological terms. Sufism, the mystical dimension of Islam, runs through South Asia as a deep spiritual vein inflected with philosophies and traditions from other Muslim lands and cultures as well as pre-Islamic rites and practices. Sufi mysticism is one of many nuances that complicate the all-too-common view that Islam is monolithic, unable or unwilling to recognize the internal plurality of devotion and interpretation among its faithful. Sacred Spaces: Journeys with the Sufis of the Indus Valley is a personal and artistic act of resistance against those forces—both within Islam and outside of it—that seek to deny such nuances, to silence the voices of mystics, and to distill the diversity of Islamic piety into something essential, unitary and uniform. aiga.org/design-journeys-samina-quraeshi/#
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