How to Use Sufi in a Sentence

Sufi

noun

• At its heart, The Sufi Storyteller is about how stories save us.
  — Sonya Rehman, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
• 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
• In the 15th century, Sufi mystics are said to have consumed it to stay awake during long nights of prayer and devotions.
  — Ali Halit Diker, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
• Rumi, whose poetry often explores mystic Sufi themes, compared the body to a garment that could be taken off or changed.
  — Rizwan Virk, The Conversation, 13 Nov. 2025
• The Sufi poet Rumi is credited with something that may help guide your interactions with others.
  — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
• There were belly-dancing and aerial performances and at midnight, Sufi dervishes performed an ecstatic whirling dance.
  — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 7 July 2025
• Khan, a qawwali singer with a 600-year lineage, brought Sufi devotional music to global audiences.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 June 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Even as Shams makes some naive and dangerous mistakes while trying to land a job, the Sufi teachings of Toufik and his father add positive lessons of love and compassion that help Shams become more grounded and confident.
  — Alissa Simon, Variety, 18 Dec. 2024
• 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
• 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
• That period saw the revival of several Sufi orders that came to be associated with new social classes, including industrial magnates, newly urbanizing artisans, and shop owners.
  — Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
• 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
• The industry that got away Modern-day Americans know coffee as a morning pick-me-up, but historical accounts place the beverage in the hands of Sufi monks in Yemen, who sipped on coffee to remain energized through late-night prayer rituals.
  — Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 28 Sep. 2025
• Overall, there was immense geographical and cultural diversity amongst Muslims who perceived Islam as cultural—based in syncretic Sufi traditions—rather than political.
  — Nahal Sheikh, JSTOR Daily, 15 May 2024
• Blending Sufi classics, absurdist dreams, careful mathematical calculations and lyrical narratives, Ismailov invents an ingenious transnational poetics of love and longing for the digital age.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
• The program includes yoga, meditation, Zen archery, sound journeys, traditional Japanese tea ceremonies, multisensory concert saunas and mystical Sufi rituals.
  — Emese MacZko, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025