Sufism Sentence Examples

Sufism (q.v.) appears in the 9th century among the Mahommedans of Persia as a kind of reaction against the rigid monotheism and formalism of Islam.

About twenty-five years later the first theoretical handbook of SufIsm in Persian was composed by Ali b.

The mystical tendency in Islam, Sufism, is also regarded as heretical (see Kuenen's Hibbert Lecture, pp. 45-5 0).