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means A practitioner of Sufism, the mystical tradition within Islam focused on direct inner experience of the divine through practices like meditation, chanting, and (famously, among some orders) whirling.

from Most scholars trace it to the Arabic 'suf,' meaning wool — early ascetics wore coarse woolen garments as a mark of simplicity and renunciation, much like hair-shirted monks elsewhere. Other theories link it to 'safa' (purity) or even to the Greek 'sophia' (wisdom), but these are far less supported and generally considered folk etymology. The wool story remains the standard scholarly account.