1. The other woman, Sufi, was small and somewhat misshapen, thick through the trunk, her back hunched.

2. Sayings of the Sufi poets show up in mass-market books, calendars and catalogues.

3. Suicide bombers a deadly attack a Sufi shrine in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore.

4. Sufi holy men from India to Turkey sought to find Allah by gazing upon the beauty of beardless youths.

5. Sufi, Shia and Ahmadiyya holy sites in Pakistan have been attacked, she said, as was a Syriac Catholic church in Baghdad just a few weeks ago.

6. Once it happened that a Sufi was brought to me.

7. Secondly, the ideology of Sufi clan were influenced by the Buddhism, and they were used prayer beads to cultivate themselves according to the Moslem doctorine.

8. The depth of Sufi mysticism arouses fear among orthodox Muslims, generating hostile criticism.

9. It is a tradition in which each devotee must have a direct relationship with a Sufi sheikh.

10. Inside a yellow barn set in rolling green hills, 10 Sufis spin like synchronized tops across the wooden floor.

11. Ibn Arabin was a very famous scholar in Islamic history and a Sufi Sheih.

12. I have mentioned all this in terms of its roots, to demythologise the absolute nonsensical myth of it being a 2000 year old Sufi system.

13. Now they began to whirl around on the spot. Not with the easy grace of the Sufi dancers I'd seen in Istanbul, but with arms taut and fists clenched.

14. These traditions come from Farid ud din Attar a later sufi saint and poet, who used earlier sources. Rabia herself though has not left any written works.

15. It is more radical than the traditional form of Sufi Islam that has existed in the region since the 8th century.

16. The tombs of masters and saints, Gongbei, are major places of worship for the Sufi orders.

17. One great Persian book, The Lights of Canopus, of Sufi provenance, was derived from it(/sufi.html), centuries after its origins.

18. Ibn Qayyim continues: " Among the best of people is the Sufi learned in fiqh. "

19. However, in his study Ma Tong ( 1983 ) has fewer members in the Sufi orders ( Sufei Menhuan ).