Recalled Meeting Sheikh Nazim With Pope
November 01, 2015
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The Naqshbandi dervish monastery in the northern Cypriot town of Lefka has often been described to me in almost identical terms by different people: “It is like a United Nations with myriad languages spoken at the same time.” The monastery, whose disciples flocked from all over the world but are mostly British, was headed by Sheikh Nazim al-Qubrusi, who died on May 7 while being treated in a