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 1 Pre   |         in composing a poem upon Sufiism, and being but a mediocre
 2 Pre   |            you write of wine, of Sufiism, and of the object of your
 3 Pre   |       was a Sufi. The history of Sufiism has yet to be written, the
 4 Pre   |          Some have supposed that Sufiism was imported from India
 5 Pre   |       era and before the rise of Sufiism, by which the doctrines
 6 Pre   |         it seems improbable that Sufiism, of which the essential
 7 Pre   |    theory is that the origins of Sufiism are to be looked for in
 8 Pre   |          source."~The keynote of Sufiism is the union, the identification
 9 Pre   |       dominant characteristic of Sufiism," he says, "is to unite
10 Pre   |          it may be said that the Sufiism of Hafiz is partly due to
11 Pre   |     solution presented to him by Sufiism. He understood and sympathised
12 Pre   |         of life." But he handles Sufiism in a broad and noble manner,
13 Pre   | abstinence as I by my feasting."~Sufiism apart, an undercurrent of
14 III(*)|       him to seek for comfort in Sufiism, and bids him look upon