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Sufi

ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to the Sufis or to Sufism
NOUN
  1. a Muslim who represents the mystical dimension of Islam; a Muslim who seeks direct experience of Allah; mainly in Iran

How To Use Sufi In A Sentence

  • Festivals that provide a forum for Arab and Israeli art and culture, and universities and academies that offer joint courses in the Qur'an and the Bible, midrash and tafsir, cabbalah and Sufism, thereby placing them in their original relation to one another, are today only feasible in exile -- in the West, of all places, which bears part of the blame for the present-day impossible situation. MRZine.org
  • It is more radical than the traditional form of Sufi Islam that has existed in the region since the 8th century.
  • Traditional Javanese Islam, a blend of Sufism mixed with animist and Hindu concepts predating Islam, shares common heritage with Bali.
  • Suicide bombers a deadly attack a Sufi shrine in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore.
  • The same pattern obtains for Islam, as Woodward includes miracles associated with Muhammad and then a number of Sufi saints.
  • Members of the Banu Sa'd al-Din, a prominent Sufi family in Damascus, made talismans and charms which could reportedly heal the sick and cure the insane.
  • He is also a prolific writer, being the author of a dozen books on subjects such as Islamic theology, ethics, Sufism and comparative religions.
  • Inside a yellow barn set in rolling green hills, 10 Sufis spin like synchronized tops across the wooden floor.
  • She points out that even Sufi practitioners, the contemplatives of Islam, are marginalized by the powerful clerics and government leaders who guide Islam.
  • At the heart of all this is a Sufi aphorism that speaks agelessly to the true nature of loss itself, that it has an afterlife where spirit lies. Knowing Jesse
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