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Islam and Sufism

The Shambhala Guide to Sufism

by Carl W. Ernst

An introduction to Sufism that also examines how the term was invented and used by Orientalists, reformers and Western spiritual movements. Ernst covers the sources, saints, practices, music and poetry of the tradition with scholarly care.

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