Studies in Early Mysticism in the Near and Middle East: Being an Account of the Rise and Development of Early Christian Mysticism in the Near and Middle East Up to the Seventh Century, and of the Subsequent Development of Mysticism in Islām Known as Sūfism Together with Some Account of the Relationship Between Early Christian Mysticism and the Earliest Form of Islamic Mysticism |
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