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		<title>In Saudi Arabia, a Resurgence of Sufism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mystical Sect of Islam Finds Its Voice in More Tolerant Post-9/11 Era
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia &#8212; A hush came over the crowd as the young man sitting cross-legged on the floor picked up the microphone and sang, a cappella, a poem about Islam&#8217;s prophet Muhammad. His eyes shut tight, his head covered by an orange-and-white turban, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Professor delves into Muslim mystical sect</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before a group of about 50 students, professor religious studies Carl Ernst discussed Sufism, which is relatively unknown in the Western world, but can be somewhat controversial.
In a 45 minute lecture to kick off Islam Awareness Week at Penn the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill professor described Sufism as a spiritual approach to Islam that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sufis allege forced conversion in Muslim town</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2004 19:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clerics of a Sufi sect of Islam in Kattankudy, a large Muslim town near Batticaloa riven by religious clashes which started four days ago, said Wednesday that more than six hundred of their followers were forcibly converted to orthodoxy under threat of violence and death. Sri Lanka army troops were also deployed in the troubled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pir Vilayat Inayat-Khan, 87, Sect Leader, Dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2004 01:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS, June 21 - Pir Vilayat Inayat-Khan, who headed an international order of Sufis, members of a mystical offshoot of Islam, and wrote books about it, died on Thursday at his home in Suresnes, a suburb of Paris. He was 87.
His death was announced by Donald Graham, an official of the Sufi Order International.
A teacher [...]]]></description>
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