A refined mysticism among certain classes of Mohammedans, particularly in Persia, who hold to a kind of pantheism and practice extreme asceticism in their lives.
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Sufism
Encyclopedia Britannica
SUFISM. See Mohammedanism, vol. xvi. p. 594; Mysticism, vol. xvii. p. 130; and Sunnites, p. 659 sq. infra.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 22, p. 622
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