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Thursday, May 8, 2014

Cyprus’ Islam’s Sufi Leader Dies

NICOSIA — Sheikh Muhammad Nazim Adil al-Qubrusi al-Haqqani, a leading figure of Sufism, the mystical branch of the Islamic faith, died May 7 at the age of 92 in the north of ethnically-divided Cyprus. Imam Shakir Alemdar, the vice grand mufti of Cyprus, confirmed the death. The imam hailed the Cypriot-born Sheikh Nazim as one […]

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