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▪ I. ‖ Sufi1|ˈsuːfɪ|
Forms: 7 Suffi, 7, 9 Sofee, 8 Souffee, 8–9 Sofi, 9 Soof(f)ee, Soofi, Soophee, 9 Sufi.
[a. Ar. çūfī lit. ‘man of wool’, f. çūf wool (see Margoliouth Early Devel. Mohamm., 1914, 141). Cf. F. sofi, soufi. It has often been erron. associated with Sophy1, q.v.]
One of a sect of Muslim ascetic mystics who in later times embraced pantheistic views.
1653Greaves Seraglio 178 Those Turks which..would be accounted Sofees [marg. Puritans] do commonly read, as they walk along the streets. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 571 Some of them called Souffees, who are a kind of quietists. 1815Elphinstone Acc. Caubul (1842) I. Introd. 83 The mystical doctrines of the Sofees. 1872Lowell Dante Prose Wks. 1890 IV. 149 A Soofi who has passed the fourth step of initiation. 1875Encycl. Brit. II. 677/2 The Persian Sufis specially distinguished themselves by their practice of abstinence and solitary meditation.
attrib.1815Elphinstone Acc. Caubul (1842) I. 273 The beauty of the Soofee system. 1886Conder Syrian Stone-Lore ix. (1896) 342 note, The ‘path’, the final ‘unity’ with God, the disbelief in all creeds, [etc.]..which form the great Sufi doctrines, are purely Buddhist.
▪ II. Sufi2
erron. form of Sophy1.
1876Encycl. Brit. IV. 707/1 The Sophi or Sufi of Persia. Ibid. V. 175/1 The palace of the Sufi princes. |