Fazlallah Astarabadi and the Hurufis

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Oneworld Publications, May 23, 2005 - Religion - 141 pages
The first accessible account of Fazlallah Astarabadi, the14th-century Islamic religious leader and the movement he founded on the idea that the cosmos contains secrets that become manifest through extraordinary human beings.

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EARLY LIFE
1
ENLIGHTENMENT
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About the author (2005)

Shahzad Bashir is Assistant Professor of Religion at Carleton College in Minnesota. His published works include Messianic Hope and Mystical Visions: The Nurbakhshiya between Medieval and Modern Islam.

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