Sufism Definition

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).