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n. - Islamic mysticism.

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  • Doris says, Sufism is something you experience on your own.
  • The word Sufism was not known at the time of the Messenger or the Sahaabah or the Taabieen.
  • Doris Lessing revisited her interest in Sufism in the Time Bites (2004) collection of essays.
  • In Arabic the word Marifa literally means knowledge, though in Sufism it refers to experiential devout hold in particular.
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