How to Use Sufi in a Sentence

Sufi

noun
  • She was terrified so her father, whose side of the family has Sufi lineage, sought to reassure her.
    — Sibani Ram, Los Angeles Times, 2024-01-30
  • The Sufi poet Rumi is credited with something that may help guide your interactions with others.
    — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 2024-03-01
  • Khan, a qawwali singer with a 600-year lineage, brought Sufi devotional music to global audiences.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2024-06-21
  • As 13th Century Sufi poet Rumi writes: Pray for a tough instructor to hear and act and stay within you.
    — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 2024-03-12
  • Both secular and religious souls continued, meanwhile, to quote from the Sufi poems that Iranian schoolchildren, to this day, learn by heart.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2022-12-14
  • The bloodshed culminated on February 16 with an assault on a revered Sufi shrine that killed nearly 90 people.
    — Michael Kugelman, Foreign Affairs, 2017-03-02
  • And for listeners, discovering the sounds of traditional Pakistani music – including new twists on familiar qawwalis, or Sufi devotional songs – brought its own kind of joy.
    — Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 2023-05-02
  • Thinking Heartbeats align during an Islamic ritual, new study finds Researchers found that the hearts of Sufi devotees harmonized as one during a mystical practice.
    — Big Think, 2024-06-24
  • Housed on the ground floor of a 1930s apartment block, still with its original elevator, across the hallway is the equally delightful cafe and bookshop Sufi, invariably packed with a mixture of students and expats.
    — Sarah Turner, Forbes, 2022-04-12
  • Encouraged by his mother, and inspired by her traditions of Sufi mysticism, Walid eventually became a full-time artist, creating paintings and engravings of the evocative landscape around Umm al-Fahem.
    — Isabel Kershner, BostonGlobe.com, 2023-07-22
  • Overall, there was immense geographical and cultural diversity amongst Muslims who perceived Islam as cultural—based in syncretic Sufi traditions—rather than political.
    — Nahal Sheikh, JSTOR Daily, 2024-05-15

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