SUFI is also teen slang for
Posted By: SUFIism on 2005-12-20
In Reply to: You are misinformed. Sufi is most definitely NOT an Indian term. SM - MT
Shut Up, (cussword) Idiot.
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You are misinformed. Sufi is most definitely NOT an Indian term. SM
Sufism or tasawwuf, as it is called in Arabic, is generally understood by scholars and Sufis to be the inner, mystical, or psycho-spiritual dimension of Islam. Today, however, many Muslims and non-Muslims believe that Sufism is outside the sphere of Islam. Nevertheless, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, one of the foremost scholars of Islam, in his article The Interior Life in Islam contends that Sufism is simply the name for the inner or esoteric dimension of Islam.
Psych work is full of modern slang and terminology.
I can see both sides of this issue. First, those are nonmedical terms and wouldn't constitute a serious error. However, it's clear that the test taker did not even do her research on unfamiliar terminology.
There were pages of VERY negative posts about them, in the high teen-20s pages on
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