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.
  • Redhouse in the preface to his English metrical version of The Mesnevi, Book the First (London, 1881); there is also an abridged translation of the Mathnawi, with introduction on Sufism, by E.
  • About twenty-five years later the first theoretical handbook of SufIsm in Persian was composed by Ali b.
 
 

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