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, 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

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024