Sufi
ṣūfīA practitioner of Islamic mysticism; in India the Sufi orders became major channels of devotional culture and of the meeting between Islam and Hindu bhakti.
Where this term appears
- Hinduism and the Coming of Islam History
…pread of conversion, quiet where the others were loud: the advance of Sufi devotion, the mystics whose shrines, the dargahs , drew Hindus and Muslims alike.
- The Bhakti Movement History
The formless God of the nirguna sants had an obvious kinship with the God of Islam, and the ecstatic love-poetry of the Sufis ran in channels remarkably close to bhakti's own.
- The Bengal Renaissance And Ramakrishna Treatise
…Vedanta practice under Tota Puri (1865), the Islamic practice under a Sufi teacher named Govinda Ray (1866-1867), the Christian practice that emerged from his engagement with a portrait of the Virgin Mary and J…
- The Prophets among the authorities Treatise
Pīr, and which pīr That count has a problem inside it, and the problem is easy to walk past. Pīr in Hindī and Urdu is the Sufi title, the spiritual master.
- The word, reclaimed or not Treatise
The standing witness carries pīr , the Sufi master, beside paigambar , the prophet, and Mohammadā vīr , and most of the independent compilations run that vocabulary denser again; chapter 12 has the counts.