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Islam and Sufism

The Sufi Orders in Islam

by J. Spencer Trimingham

A historical survey of the formation and organisation of the Sufi orders, their rituals, hierarchies and spread across the Islamic world. Trimingham's scheme of stages in Sufi history has been criticised but the book remains a basic reference.

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