(n.) One of a certain order of religious men in Persia.
Example Sentences:
(1) I can’t,” says sufi pop singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, comparing himself unfavourably to his uncle, the late Pakistani superstar Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan .
(2) "Whether Jain or Sikh or Buddhist or Sufi or Zoroastrian or Jewish or Muslim or Baptist or Hindu or Catholic or Baha'i or Animist or any other mainstream or minor religion or movement, we are taught as a tolerant society to accept a diversity of ideologies.
(3) This plasmid carries a putative gene which can suppress the cell division defect due to ftsI (pbpB) and has hence been termed sufI (sui).
(4) And Islamist extremists desecrated shrines built by Sufi Muslims and the graves of British soldiers.
(5) The parC-sufI region was analyzed by subcloning the chromosome region of pLC4-14.
(6) It is exemplified for me most admirably in Goethe's interest in Islam generally, and the 14th-century Persian Sufi poet Hafiz in particular, a consuming passion which led to the composition of the West-östlicher Diwan, and it inflected Goethe's later ideas about Weltliteratur, the study of all the literatures of the world as a symphonic whole which could be apprehended theoretically as having preserved the individuality of each work without losing sight of the whole.
(7) Like countless other Pakistanis, Malik’s family had abandoned their traditional Sufi-based Barelvi Islam that is credited with being relatively tolerant .
(8) Abbasaid Sufi, director-general of Kano state Hisbah board, which enforces sharia law, added: "The government is not doing enough.
(9) After more than a year of violence that came as much from the competition between rival groups who fought former dictator Muammar Gaddafi for power and influence, recent incidents have had a more jidahi flavour even as Salafist groups have attacked Sufi shrines and demanded that women be covered.
(10) Sufi Soul is presented by writer William Dalrymple and features extraordinary scenes from Pakistan, such as a festival at the shrine of a Sufi saint (Shah Abdul Latif), which evokes a subcontinental Las Vegas.
(11) parC, plsC, and sufI are all transcribed in the counterclockwise direction on the chromosome, possibly in an operon with multiple promoters.
(12) We are from a land of Sufi saints ... this is very shocking for us,” school teacher Hifza Bibi, the step-sister of Malik’s father, who also lives in Karor Lal Esan told Reuters.
(13) The dervishes are all Sufis, seekers on the mystical path to God, and are members of different Brotherhoods, chief among them Mevlevis, the school founded by the mystic poet Rumi 700 years ago.
(14) The rise of Isis has even generated fears for the fate of splendid Roman ruins in Libya, where Sufi shrines have been vandalised.
(15) The landscape was littered with Sufi shrines, many now destroyed.
(16) She lived through some momentous transformations of her own vocation, from communist social realist to reluctant feminist, to Sufi seeker, to Cassandra, to self-appointed cosmic anthropologist.
(17) Although no one could compare to Nusrat, the group remain formidable, and can be seen next month as part of the Barbican Centre's Ramadan Nights, which also features Sufi street singer Sain Zahoor, a more classical Arabic Sufi group, the al-Kindi Ensemble with Sheikh Habboush, and whirling dervishes from Syria.
(18) Take a look at Paris.” Kellyanne Conway blames refugees for 'Bowling Green massacre' that never happened Read more There were questions about whether Trump had confused Sweden with Sehwan in Pakistan, where more than 85 people were killed in a suicide bombing at the Sufi shrine on Thursday.
(19) From the beginning, Sufi has been a pluralistic faith.
(20) The attack on the consulate comes two weeks after Salafists used a bulldozer to destroy a key Sufi Islamic shrine in central Tripoli, watched by security forces who did not intervene.
Sufism
Definition:
(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) My Wahabi guide, Sayeed, tried to tell me that hardly anyone followed Sufism any more.
(2) She was spiritual as well, exploring the limits and pitfalls that came with being human, especially after she became an adherent of Sufism.
(3) In Turkey too, Sufism is frowned upon - although in the city of Konya, there are celebrations on the anniversary of Rumi's death every year.
(4) Like much of Sufism, the performance of the whirling dervishes works on many levels and is charged with symbolism.
(5) Thus sufism would be an adaptation from Chinese Shamanism.
(6) Tempting though it is to dismiss Parveen's claims that she can see Sufi saints among the audience, Sufism has a tradition of female mystics, notably the eighth century's Rabia al-Basri, who ran through the streets of Basra in Iraq with a blazing torch in one hand and a container of water in the other.
(7) Sufism, on the other hand, is a tradition devoted to the development of the higher intuitive capacity needed to deal with this issue.
(8) She continues to lend her name to local campaigns, however, for better reading in schools, for the preservation of the trees in Hampstead Heath, and, revealingly, to pursue a faith in Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam which she studied for years under the tutelage of Idries Shah.
(9) Its origins are in seventh-century aesthetics and followers of Sufism aim to achieve direct union with God.
(10) Many European writers have been fascinated by Sufism - Richard Burton, the translator of the Kama Sutra, was initiated as a dervish, and Doris Lessing and Ted Hughes shared his interest ('the Sufis are the most sensible collection of people on the planet', Hughes once said).
(11) One, two, sufi... 204 The number of countries in which Sufism is practised 1.3 The number, in billions, of Muslims worldwide 20 The percentage of Muslims who class themselves as Sufis 10 The number of Sufi adherents, in millions, in Turkey 10 Number of Sufi adherents, in thousands, in Germany 195 Number of practising Sufis in New Zealand 125 Number of albums recorded by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan · Ramadam Nights, featuring the al-Kindi Ensemble, is at the Barbican, London EC1 from 4 November.
(12) It was the latest such attack on devotees of Sufism, a mystical and generally moderate form of Islam despised by radical fundamentalists.
(13) It's the kind of sentiment echoed by most students of Sufism, such as Coleman Barks, whose translations of Rumi propelled the 13th century mystic into, bizarrely, becoming the bestselling poet in America in the Nineties (Madonna was a fan).
(14) They were selling manuscripts by Arab scholars on everything from astronomy and arithmetic to Islamic law, as well as mystical texts on Sufism, the otherworldly, saintly style of faith that the al-Qaida-affiliated Ansar Dine finds so offensive.
(15) Nusrat's family (originally from Afghanistan, a traditional centre of Sufism) have an unbroken tradition of singing qawwali for 600 years, yet you felt, somehow, as if you were plugging into something utterly modern.
(16) But Isis believes Yazidism, one of the world’s oldest religions, fusing elements of Zoroastrianism, Sufism, early Islam and Christianity, is godless.
(17) Everything that doesn’t conform to the most strict Wahhabi standards of acceptability, anything that is beloved by people that Isis doesn’t like, anything that represents non-Isis interpretations of Islam such as Shiism or Sufism, and anything from before the time of Muhammad.” Sanhareb Barsom, an official with the Syriac Union party across the border in Syria’s Hassakeh province, where the Assyrian community has also come under assault by Isis, told the Guardian: “These are not Assyrian artefacts, these are artefacts for all of humanity.” Isis kidnapped more than 200 Assyrians in a sweep through villages south of the Khabur river last month, where members of the community had settled after the Simele massacre in the 1930s by the then-kingdom of Iraq.