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Islam and Sufism

The Niche of Lights

by al-Ghazali · David Buchman (trans.)

A bilingual Arabic-English edition of Mishkat al-anwar, al-Ghazali's mystical interpretation of the Qur'anic Light Verse and of the hadith of the seventy thousand veils. The treatise is a key text for the Islamic metaphysics of light.

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