Sufi

plural Sufis · alternative Sofee · alternative Sofi · alternative Suphy

1. A mystic Muslim; a Muslim ascetic; a practitioner of Sufism.

   Some admired the external beauties of the objects they beheld, like the nightingale in love with the roſe; ſome inchanted by the concert around, like Suphys delighting in madneſs, toſſed the cup of exultation into the ſkies[.] [Footnote] Suphys are a sect of mad philoſophers.

   1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page v

comparative more Sufi · superlative most Sufi · alternative Sofee · alternative Sofi · alternative Suphy

1. Of or pertaining to Sufism or Sufis.