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Definition of Sufism

1. Noun. Islamic mysticism.

Definition of Sufism

1. 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.

Definition of Sufism

1. Noun. Islamic mysticism ¹

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Literary usage of Sufism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, with Historical Surveys by Charles F Horne (1917)
"This literature, and especially its poetry, is closely connected with the remarkable religion called sufism. Indeed, the latest edition of the Encyclopaedia ..."

2. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1902)
"We Christians know little of sufism, for its secrets are disclosed only to those initiated. To give its existence a certain liveliness in your minds, ..."

3. The Varieties of religious experience: A Study in Human Nature; Being the by William James (1902)
"We Christians know little of sufism, for its secrets are disclosed only to those initiated. To give its existence a certain liveliness in your minds, ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The origin of sufism is disputed. Some will derive it from the Vedanta and Buddhism, but their theories have no real foundations and fall to the ground when ..."

5. The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East: With Historical Surveys by Charles Francis Horne (1917)
"This literature, and especially its poetry, is closely connected with the remarkable religion called sufism. Indeed, the latest edition of the Encyclopaedia ..."

6. The Concise Dictionary of Religious Knowledge and Gazetteer by Talbot Wilson Chambers, Frank Hugh Foster, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1889)
"sufism thus seems to be a religion of the heart as opposed to formalism and ritualism. ... These definitions clearly place sufism among the mystic systems. ..."

7. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1911)
"Sufi interpretations of the quatrains of Omar Khayyam and Fitzgerald. New York: JF Taylor Sf Co., 1902. 126 ff. f°. On sufism and its literary value. ..."

8. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1895)
"There are four degrees [in sufism] by which to attain that perfect state when the soul in a sense is made divine. The first degree is Humanity; ..."

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