| Chapter 3, on pre-Christian Egyptian monasticism, along with a paragraph on Sufi mysticism, is too sketchy and vague to be of much help. |
| Known as Sufi, they opted for solitude and abnegation, renouncing physical comforts. |
| The Sufi dance, zikr, danced in a circle accompanied by chanting and percussion to reach a trance state, also is still practiced. |
| Sufis are typically more peaceful and less rigid than Salafis or Wahhabis, though there are militantly anti-Western Sufi leaders, as well. |
| There's clearly a history and you know, for being beyond words, I have thousands of Sufi treatises written by Sufis. |
| And the Sufi sheik talks about when you are chanting, I becomes we, and it's no longer the I, and that that's what it's about. |
