Annika Schmeding

Cultural Anthropologist and Senior Researcher, NIOD, Amsterdam

Annika Schmeding is a cultural anthropologist and senior researcher at NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. She is the author of Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan (Stanford University Press, 2023).

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Written by Annika Schmeding

Men are seen in a nondescript office type rooma against sunlight streaming through the window, their hands raised in devotion

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Religion

Indomitable Sufis

Once a centre of Afghan culture, Sufism seems to have disappeared in the maelstrom of war and upheaval. But still it survives

Annika Schmeding