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“Sayyida Nafisah was famed throughout”
― John Baldock, The Essence of Sufism

“... now I am my own mirror and that which I was I am no more, for "I" and "God" is a denial of the unity of God. Since I am no more, God Most High is His own mirror. Now I say that God is the mirror of myself, for with my tongue He speaks and I have passed away.”
― John Baldock, The Essence of Sufism

“dhikr.”
― John Baldock, The Essence of Sufism

“Avicenna.”
― John Baldock, The Essence of Sufism

“The Conference of the Birds,”
― John Baldock, The Essence of Sufism

“Ummayad dynasty”
― John Baldock, The Essence of Sufism

“Conference of the Birds inspired some of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and gave the Swiss the legend of William Tell. Chaucer had been dead for almost a hundred years when the Spanish reconquest of Granada in 1492”
― John Baldock, The Essence of Sufism