"Sofi" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... arranged to move northward on the following day; we therefore agreed to pass one day in his camp, and to leave the next morning for Sofi, on the ...
— In the Heart of Africa • Samuel White Baker
... philosopher, who devoted his life to the study of alchymy, but few particulars are known. He is thought to have lived in the year 730. His true name was Abou Moussah Djafar, to which was added Al Sofi, or "The Wise," and he was born at Houran, in Mesopotamia.[28] Some have thought he was a Greek, others a Spaniard, and others a prince of Hindostan; but of all the mistakes which have been made respecting ...
— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds • Charles Mackay |
