Sufiism

Also Sooffeism, Sufyism, Suffeeism, Sufeism. [f. SUFI¹ + -ISM.] = next.

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1817. C. Mills, Hist. Muhammedanism, 407. The … visionary doctrines of Sooffeism.

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1844. H. H. Wilson, Brit. India, I. 101. The blended abstractions of Sufyism and the Vedanta.

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1864. Lond. Rev., 28 May. Hafiz, with his mystic Suffeeism.

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1880. Encycl. Brit., XI. 368/1. The system of philosophy professed by Persian poets and dervishes … is called Sufiism.

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So Sufiistic a., pertaining to Sufiism.

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1880. Encycl. Brit., XI. 368/1. The Sufiistic system of philosophy.

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