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Word: sufiism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shrouded in mystery or folklore. In large part, this is because he does not seem to know or care very much about his antecedents. His family is believed to have come from Khorasan, which lies in the windswept northeastern part of the country and is the home of Iranian Sufiism, a mystical and somewhat unorthodox strain of Shi'ite Islam. His grandfather, Seyyed Ahmad Moussavi, who may have been a Sufi, is known to have lived for a time in India. Eventually, Moussavi returned to Iran and settled in Khomein, a village 180 miles south of Tehran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The Unknown Ayatullah Khomeini | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

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