By Godefroid de Callatay

ISBN-10: 1851684042

ISBN-13: 9781851684045

An illuminating examine of the mysterious Brethren of Purity', the tenth century letter writers whose epistles, even supposing usually deemed heretical, exerted a profound effect at the improvement of Shi'i Islam.

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