"Sufism" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: Sufi + -ism Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|Sufi|ism}} Sufi + -ism Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} Sufism (uncountable)
  1. A family of spiritual schools in Islam emphasizing mysticism and asceticism. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Sufism Translations (Islamic mysticism): تَصَوُّف (taṣawwuf) [masculine] (Arabic), təsəvvüf (Azerbaijani), sufilik (Azerbaijani), суфыйсылыҡ (sufıysılıq) (Bashkir), সুফিবাদ (śuphibad) (Bengali), sufisme [masculine] (Catalan), 蘇非主義 (Chinese Mandarin), 苏非主义 (Sūfēizhǔyì) (Chinese Mandarin), 蘇菲主義 (Chinese Mandarin), 苏菲主义 (Sūfēizhǔyì) (Chinese Mandarin), súfismus [masculine] (Czech), sufisme [common-gender] (Danish), soefisme [neuter] (Dutch), sufiismo (Esperanto), suufilaisuus (Finnish), soufisme [masculine] (French), sufisme [masculine] (French), Sufismus [masculine] (German), σουφισμός (soufismós) [masculine] (Greek), סוּפִיוּת [masculine] (Hebrew), सूफ़ीमत (sūfīmat) [masculine] (Hindi), सूफ़ीवाद (sūfīvād) (Hindi), szufizmus (Hungarian), sufismo [masculine] (Italian), スーフィズム (Japanese), タサッウフ (Japanese), イスラム神秘主義 (Japanese), сопылық (sopylyq) (Kazakh), Sufismus [masculine] (Latin), суфивал (sufival) (Lezgi), суфи́зам (sufízam) [masculine] (Macedonian), tasawuf (Malay), sufisme (Malay), സൂഫിസം (sūphisaṁ) (Malayalam), تصوف (Persian), sufismo [masculine] (Portuguese), суфи́зм (sufízm) [masculine] (Russian), sufism (Scots), sufizam [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), sufismo [masculine] (Spanish), usufii (Swahili), sufism [common-gender] (Swedish), tasavvuf (Turkish), суфі́зм (sufízm) [masculine] (Ukrainian), تصوف [masculine] (Urdu), تەسەۋۋۇپ (tesewwup) (Uyghur), سوپىزم (sopizm) (Uyghur)

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      "word": "tasavvuf"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "sufízm",
      "sense": "Islamic mysticism",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "суфі́зм"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "sense": "Islamic mysticism",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "تصوف"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "tesewwup",
      "sense": "Islamic mysticism",
      "word": "تەسەۋۋۇپ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "sopizm",
      "sense": "Islamic mysticism",
      "word": "سوپىزم"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Sufism"
}

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