{"id":793,"date":"2026-10-13T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckb.adlania.net\/living-islam\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T20:43:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T20:43:40","slug":"living-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/living-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Living Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sufism Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contrary to widespread misconceptions, Islam has a dimension of peace, fraternity and humanism rooted in the very heart of the Qur\u2019anic message. Sheikh Khaled Bentounes, spiritual master of the Alawiyya Sufi path, draws on the deepest sources of the prophetic tradition to explore relations between Islam and the West, the place of women in Islam, the causes of religious fundamentalism, Algeria\u2019s religious heritage, and the spiritual role of human beings, as well as the meaning of prayer and fasting.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u200b<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through his sincere and open words, he shows how Sufism, the mystical dimension of Islam, brings together the esoteric and exoteric aspects at the heart of human experience. This book is intended for all those who feel the urgent need to understand Islam and its spirituality, not only to dispel misunderstandings, but also to rediscover the original bond between the human being and God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sufism Today Contrary to widespread misconceptions, Islam has a dimension of peace, fraternity and humanism rooted in the very heart of the Qur\u2019anic message. Sheikh Khaled Bentounes, spiritual master of the Alawiyya Sufi path, draws on the deepest sources of the prophetic tradition to explore relations between Islam and the West, the place of women in Islam, the causes of religious fundamentalism, Algeria\u2019s religious heritage, and the spiritual role of human beings, as well as the meaning of prayer and fasting. \u200b Through his sincere and open words, he shows how Sufism, the mystical dimension of Islam, brings together the esoteric and exoteric aspects at the heart of human experience. This book is intended for all those who feel the urgent need to understand Islam and its spirituality, not only to dispel misunderstandings, but also to rediscover the original bond between the human being and God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biographies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}