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Also Known As Ṣūfiism • ahl al-haqiqah

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  • Sufi orders have influenced Islam in the Balkans from the time of the Middle Ages.
  • Sufis are sometimes targets for fundamentalists and extremists such as the Islamic State, who see Sufism as heretical.
  • Most Sufis are Sunni Muslims.

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Baba Mondi
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Albanian religious leader
Rūmī
Sufi mystic and poet
al-Mahdī
Sudanese religious leader
al-Ḥallāj
Islamic mystic
al-Muḥāsibī
Muslim theologian
al-Ghazālī
Muslim jurist, theologian, and mystic
Aşık Paşa
Turkish author
Sayyid Maxamed Cabdulle Xasan
Somalian leader
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Ahmed Yesevi
Turkish author
Saʿd od-Dīn Maḥmūd Shabestarī
Islamic mystic
Jāmī
Persian poet and scholar
ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī
Syrian author
ad-Damīrī
Muslim theologian
Bedreddin
Ottoman theologian
Yunus Emre
Yunus Emre
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ʿAbd al-Salām Yāsīn
Moroccan religious leader
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