‘Siyaha’ or ‘Safar’ - Wandering in search of the Beloved According to a paper by Arin Salamah Qudsi (“Crossing the Desert: Siyaha, and Safar as key concepts in early Sufi Literature and Life”), these two terms both refer to ‘travelling’ in early Sufism, however, only the first of them, siyaha (which relates to the ‘science … Continue reading Are Sufis Nomads? →