Welcome to the Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies
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Message from the Director Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS), Kyoto University inaugurated the Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies on March 6, 2016 in cooperation with the Institute for Sufi Studies at Üsküdar University, Turkey and the Kerim Foundation in Istanbul, which provides financial support to the Institute. The Center’s aims are to develop the University’s research on the Middle East and Islam to a global level and to encourage an accurate understanding of Islam in Japan by promoting research into Sufism (so-called “Islamic mysticism”). Director of the Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies TONAGA Yasushi |
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