century ce based on a fresh reading of the primary sources and integrating the findings of recent scholarship on the subject, the author presents a unified narrative of sufisms historical development within an innovative analytical framework karamustafa gives a new account of the emergence of mystical currents in islam during the ninth century and traces the rapid spread of iraq-based sufism to other regions of the islamic world and its fusion with indigenous mystical movements elsewhere, most notably the malr cultural context

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