Also Sofism. [f. SUF(I)1 + -ISM.] The mystical system of the Sufis.

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1836.  Partington’s Brit. Cycl. Lit., etc. III. 854. Sufism, the pantheistic mysticism of the East.

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1847.  in Webster.

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1898.  E. P. Evans, Evol. Ethics, iv. 126. In Persia a highly mystical and poetical sofism has grown up.

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  Also Sufist = SUFI1 (in quot. attrib.); Sufistic a., pertaining to Sufism.

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1854.  Lowell, Journ. Italy, Prose Wks. 1890, I. 199. He should take his motto from Bishop Golias’s ‘Mihi est propositum in tabernâ mori,’ though not in the sufistic sense of that misunderstood Churchman.

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1913.  Everyman, 13 June, 269/1. The Sūfist mystic, Jelalu’ d’ Din Rumi.

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