Citations:Soffi

English citations of Soffi

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1595, William George Clark, William Aldis Wright, eds., quoting Abraham Hartwell (tr.), The History of the Warres betweene the Turkes and the Persians, quoted in The merchant of Venice, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1868, →OCLC, page 92:
Soffi, and Sofito, an auncient word signifying a wise man, learned and skilfull in Magike Naturall. It is growen to be the common name of the Emperour of Persia.
1863, John Winter Jones, edited by George Percy Badger, The travels of Ludovico di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, in Persia, India, and Ethiopia, A.D. 1503 to 1508, Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, number 32, London: Hakluyt Society, translation of Itinerario de Ludouico de Varthema Bolognese by Ludovico di Varthema, →OCLC, page 103:
[…] the reason was, the Soffi was going through this country putting every thing to fire and flame; […]
1980, Roger Savory, Iran under the Safavids, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 259:
The Safavid shahs were commonly termed by Western writers "Sophie", "Sophy", "Sophi" or "Soffi". All these terms were probably corruptions of Ṣafī, the name of the founder of the Safavid Order, rather than of Ṣūfī, as the Safavid supporters called themselves.