To be at ease with God. To be like an infant in God's bosom. To be a child of the moment. To breathe well. These are some of the answers that the Sufi's have given to the question "What does it mean to be a Sufi?" Those who first adopted the name Sufi were devotees of the Prophet Muhammad's message of Unity who spurned the soul-numbing vanities of this world and the hereafter in the heat of their ardor for the intimacy of the Divine Presence. As these...

Presents an illustrated tale of thirty birds and their perilous journey through the seven valleys of Quest, Love, Understanding, Detachment, Unity, Amazement, and Death in a quest to find their true king, the Simorgh.

Kadija is the music-loving daughter of a guardian of the library in the ancient city of Timbuktu, Ali is a former shepherd boy, trained by Islamist militants--and both are caught up in the war in Mali and on opposite sides of the stuggle to save the sacred Sufi manuscripts that the militants want to destroy.