Sofi

plural Sofis

1. archaicArchaic spelling of Sufi.

   The devout Mahometans charge the Sofis with atheism; while the latter not only deny the accusation, but pretend to hold intercourse with God: they assemble at night, and perform the exercises of turning round, jumping and shouting, till they drop down from weakness and exhaustion.

   1828, Frederic Shoberl, Persia, page 95

2. archaicArchaic spelling of Safavi.

   He called himself a Safavi, from Safi, an ancestor illustrious for piety; and hence to contemporary Europe he was known as the Sofi.

   1902, John Bagnell Bury, “The Ottoman conquest”, in Adolphus W. Ward, George W. Prothero, Stanley M. Leathes, editors, The Cambridge Modern History, volume 1, New York [u.a.]: Macmillan, →OCLC, page 88

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