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Sufi

ṣūfī

A 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.

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