Persecution of Sufis | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 07/10/2019

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00:00:29 1 History
00:00:58 2 Current attacks
00:01:27 2.1 Pakistan
00:01:56 2.1.1 Timeline
00:02:39 2.2 Kashmir, India
00:03:08 2.3 Somalia
00:03:37 2.4 Mali
00:04:06 2.5 Egypt
00:04:35 2.6 Libya
00:05:04 2.7 Tunisia
00:05:33 2.8 Dagestan
00:06:02 2.9 Iran
00:06:32 3 See also



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Persecution of Sufis and Sufism has included destruction of Sufi shrines and mosques, suppression of orders, murder, and discrimination against adherents in a number of Muslim-majority countries. The Turkish Republican state banned all Sufi orders and abolished their institutions in 1925 after Sufis opposed the new secular order. The Iranian Islamic Republic has harassed Sufis, reportedly for their lack of support for the government doctrine of "governance of the jurist" (i.e., that the supreme Shiite jurist should be the nation's political leader). 
In most other Muslim countries, attacks on Sufis and especially their shrines have come from adherents of puritanical schools of thought who believe that practices such as celebration of the birthdays of Sufi saints, and dhikr ("remembrance" of God) ceremonies are bid‘ah or impure innovation, and polytheistic (Shirk).