Sufism · The Persian path of the heart, where the lover finds the Beloved by losing the self.

Rumi is the bestselling poet in America. Hafiz is quoted at weddings and on coffee mugs. Yet almost no one in the West has practiced what they were writing about. Sufism, the mystical heart of Islam, with branches in Persia, Anatolia, Khorasan, and Andalusia, is the longest unbroken mystical tradition in the world. The path is specific: dhikr (remembrance through the breath), sama (listening), fan