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Usage examples of sufi.

Sufis were wide-eyed in wonder as we climbed back up, backs laden with presents.

The Sultan even tolerated heretical Islamic offshoots like the Bahai, the Extreme Sufis, and the Yezidi or devil worshippers.

After her own presentation about microtubules in the brain, mystic input had come from a Sufi speaker.

Celtic wisdom, Mithraic rituals introduced by the Romans, and other strands of magical tradition had been reinvigorated by an influx of cabalism and esoteric Sufi beliefs brought from the Holy Land by returning crusaders.

It is, indeed, undeniable that there are close parallels between the forms of language used to express these ideas by the troubadours and the Sufis.

The Parseval had landed on its top, but only one of its crew, a Japanese ex-blimp man and Sufi who called himself Piscator, had been able to enter.

The various sects of mystics, allied in faith and feeling to the Sufis, which are quite numerous in the East, agree in a deep metaphorical explanation of the vulgar notions pertaining to Deity, judgment, heaven, and hell.

The contention of his Sufi castigator Faridu'd-Din 'Attar was that this knowledge was not what God required.

I'll bet not even Davis Dault would hit you, with a dog like Sufi between you and him.

So drillers followed dowsers, and pipeline crews went out after the drillers, and tent teams were out all around the piste, and up the Reull canyon above Har-makhis, helping the Sufis deal with a badly fretted canyon wall.

Various highly impeachable sources suggested that Eliu Archuleta, her eighteen-year-old son, was actually the offspring of an affair between Ruby and the expatriot santo carver who had disappeared right after the Smokey the Bear statue riot, Snuffy Ledoux, a clandestine relationship that supposedly occurred while her second husband, Sufi Menopoulous, a Greek who had owned the Eagle Motel on Route 26 leading eastlErom Cha-misaville, lay dying of cancer at St.

He thought it over, watching the Sufis lead the way up the walktube staircases to their cliff dwelling.

In fact, in the teaching of the enneagram, a traditional Sufi analysis of character traits and behavior, the self or ego is a fixation from the past.

He asked for shelter in the sufi lodge, a long old building in the southernmost district of the old capital, and he bathed in their pool, purifying himself inside and out.

The Sufis called out to each other when they looked through the lechatelierite windows, and quickly they suited up to go out into this crimson world, into the wind, calling to Boone to accompany them.