zikr

Definitions

Examples

• What the dervishes are able to do during the ecstacy caused by Zikr, I had once an opportunity of witnessing in Samarkand.

• There are many different orders, and several other kinds of zikr besides the two most commonly seen by travellers.

• The Zikr are only various forms of devotion invented by the Sufi guides to develop the spiritual life.

• This form of prefacing the zikr is commonly used by almost all orders of darweeshes in Egypt.

• The zikr here described was performed near the tomb of a saint, for whose sake it was celebrated.