Sufi
pronunciation
How to pronounce Sufi in British English:
UK [ˈsu:fi]
How to pronounce Sufi in American English:
US [ˈsufi]
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- Noun:
- a Muslim who represents the mystical dimension of Islam; a Muslim who seeks direct experience of Allah; mainly in Iran
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- Adjective:
- of or relating to the Sufis or to Sufism
Word Origin
- Sufi (n.)
- member of a Muslim mystical order, 1650s (earlier Sufian, 1580s), from Arabic sufi, literally "man of wool" (i.e., "man wearing woolen garments," as opposed to silk), from suf "wool." According to Klein, so-called from the habit of "putting on the holy garment" (labs-as-suf) to devote oneself to mysticism. Related: Sufic.
Example
- 1. He studied sufi mysticism in his youth and brought some of its ideas to the west .
- 2. Our sufi masters have taught that we judge ourselves and send ourselves to hell or paradises .
- 3. Sufi leaders used basayev 's invasion to see off salafis as a whole .
- 4. Mr sufi says large national banks have customers everywhere .
- 5. In a new san francisco fed economic letter , atif mian and amir sufi investigate this hypothesis .