How to Use Sufi in a Sentence
Sufi
noun-
Khan, a qawwali singer with a 600-year lineage, brought Sufi devotional music to global audiences.
— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 June 2024 -
She was terrified so her father, whose side of the family has Sufi lineage, sought to reassure her.
— Sibani Ram, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024 -
The bloodshed culminated on February 16 with an assault on a revered Sufi shrine that killed nearly 90 people.
— Michael Kugelman, Foreign Affairs, 2 Mar. 2017 -
The Sufi poet Rumi is credited with something that may help guide your interactions with others.
— Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024 -
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, 14 Dec. 2022 -
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, 12 Apr. 2022 -
Later critics complained that FitzGerald made extensive use of a translator’s liberties and put things to Omar’s name that a faithful Sufi never would have committed to writing.
— Tom Zoellner, SPIN, 9 Apr. 2024 -
To prevent such an outcome, tribal and Sufi leaders should be encouraged to play their traditional roles as mediators and as voices for reason.
— Mai Hassan, Foreign Affairs, 1 May 2023 -
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, 2 May 2023 -
As a result, Commins notes, Wahhabism has been superimposed for two centuries on a society that was traditionally much more plural, with important roles for Shiites and Sufi mystics.
— David Commins, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2015 -
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, 22 July 2023
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