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Mystical Islamic faith
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sufism
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sufism \Su"fism\, n. A refined mysticism among certain classes of Mohammedans, particularly in Persia, who hold to a kind of pantheism and practice extreme asceticism in their lives. [Written also sofism .]
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Sufism or Tasawwuf , is defined as the inner mystical dimension of Islam . Practitioners of Sufism, referred to as Sufis ( ) (; ), often belong to different ṭuruq or "orders"—congregations formed around a grand master referred to as a mawla who traces a ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"mystical teachings of the Sufis," 1817, Sufiism (modern form by 1836), from Sufi + -ism .
Usage examples of sufism.
In the event Khurasan became the cradle of the highest forms of philosophical Sufism, which developed alongside the more extreme forms characteristic of popular and ecstatic sects.
Moreover, with its increasing appeal to the masses in eleventh-century Khurasan, Sufism became a social force, as well as the spiritual exercise it had been when restricted to a few rigorously trained initiates.
A more than averagely devout follower of the North American sufism promulgated in his childhood by Pir Valayat, the medical attache partakes of neither kif nor distilled spirits, and must unwind without chemical aid.
True, Alamut eventually fell, under the pressure of the Mongols, but the Ismaili sect survived throughout the East: it mingled with non-Shiite Sufism, it generated the terrible sect of the Druzes, and it survived finally among the Indian Khojas, the followers of the Aga Khan, not far from the site of Agarttha.
In Hinduism, in Neoplatonism, in Sufism, in Christian mysticism, in Whitmanism, we find the same recurring note, so that there is about mystical utterances an eternal unanimity which ought to make a critic stop and think, and which brings it about that the mystical classics have, as has been said, neither birthday nor native land.
Such a style of life does not seem to match Sufi professions of poverty and avoidance of the world's delights, but if we remember that the physical and psychical worlds were not sharply differentiated, and that Sufism was providing the oppressed and hungry with hope and sustenance, the paradox is lost.