This chapter explores the work of Sudanese-born author Leila Aboulela, focusing on her novels—The Translator (1999), Minaret (2005), Lyrics Alley (2011), The Kindness of Enemies (2015) and Bird Summons (2019)—alongside her short story collection Elsewhere, Home (2018). Widely recognised as an Anglo-Arab writer, Aboulela’s engagement with Sufism is rooted in her upbringing in Sudan and her exposure to Traditional or Classical Sufism through her family and cultural background. Her writing reflects a faith-based and orthodox interpretation of Sufism, where esoteric and exoteric aspects of Sufism are viewed as equally valid, in contrast to other writers discussed in this book such as Doris Lessing and Elif Shafak, who engage with and propagate a more western, universalist strand of Sufi belief. This chapter analyses how Aboulela’s literary vision is shaped by classical Sufi values, with particular attention to themes such as the significance of prayer, the cultivation of a personal relationship with God, the observance of Islamic rituals and the importance of submission. These spiritual elements are portrayed in her fiction not as abstract metaphors but lived, embodied practices. Drawing on an unpublished interview I conducted with Aboulela, the chapter highlights how traditional Sufism informs both the thematic content and the moral framework of her work.