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Noun: "Sufis"
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1737, John Greaves, “A description of the Grand Seignor's seraglio, or Turkish emperor's court”, in Miscellaneous works of Mr. John Greaves, professor of astronomy in the University of Oxford, volume 2, London: Thomas Birch, →OCLC, pages 785–786:Those Turks which ſeem to be profeſſors of religion and devotion, and would be accounted * Sofees, do commonly read, as they walk along the ſtreets, and have their Beads longer then other men, carrying them in their hands into the Moſcheas, and are ever buſy with them as they walk up and down the ſtreets, […]
1839, Philip Meadows Taylor, Confessions of a Thug, volume 1, London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 32:"No, indeed," said the old man, "it is true that some professors of our religion, Sofees and others, whose creeds are accursed, have from time to time promulgated heterodox doctrines, […] "
1842, Mountstuart Elphinstone, An account of the kingdom of Canbul, and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India: comprising a view of the Afghaun nation and a history of the Dooraunee monarchy, new and revised edition, volume 1, London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 83:We had many other Moollas, some learned, and some worldly, some Deists, others rigid Mahommedans, and some overflowing with the mystical doctrines of the Sofees.
1865, “ February 14th, 1865”, in Journal of the Anthropological Society of London, volume 3, London: Trübner, →ISSN, page cxli:Mr. Bouverie Pusey wished to know the relation of the dervishes to the sofees. Are the dervishes and sofees the same?
Noun: "Safawis"
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1893, “Ismail I”, in Cassell's new biographical dictionary: containing memoirs of the most eminent men and women of all ages and countries, New York: Cassell, →OCLC, page 470:Shah of Persia, founder of the dynasty of Sofees.
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1819, “Sophis, or Sofees”, in Abraham Rees, editor, The cyclopædia, or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature, volume 33, London: Longman , →OCLC, unnumbered page:SOPHIS, or Sofees, denote a kind of order of religious among the Mahometans in Perſia, […]
1819, “Sophis, Sofees, or Sufi's”, in Abraham Rees, editor, The cyclopædia, or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature, volume 33, London: Longman , →OCLC, unnumbered page:SOPHIS, Sofees, or Sufi's, the denomination of a ſect of modern philoſophers among the Perſians, […]