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Islam and Sufism

A History of Islamic Societies

by Ira M. Lapidus

A comprehensive social and political history of Muslim societies from Arabia to Southeast Asia and Africa. Lapidus pays particular attention to the relations between states, religious scholars and Sufi movements, and the book is a standard reference for the comparative history of the Islamic world.

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