The Call to God - Hamdani, Abbas; Soufan, Abdallah
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The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity are a monumental work of medieval Islamic learning. Epistle 48 belongs to the fourth part dealing with Divine-Legal matters. It deals specifically with methods that should be employed in advocating for the cause of the fraternity, as well as issues of governance and knowledge of the soul.

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The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity are a monumental work of medieval Islamic learning. Epistle 48 belongs to the fourth part dealing with Divine-Legal matters. It deals specifically with methods that should be employed in advocating for the cause of the fraternity, as well as issues of governance and knowledge of the soul.
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Abbas Hamdani is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He received his BA in 1945 and LLB in 1947 from Bombay University, and his PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies in 1950 in Arabic and Islamic Studies. He taught at the University of Karachi from 1951-62, at the American University in Cairo from 1962-9, and at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from 1970 until his retirement in 2001. He has published on Fatimid history, medieval Islamic and Ismaili thought, and on the Islamic background to the Voyages of Discovery. He was awarded fellowships from the Fulbright Commission and the American Research Center in Egypt. Abdallah Soufan received his BS in Mathematics, and his BA and MA in Arabic Language and Literature from the American University of Beirut, where he worked for several years as an Instructor of Arabic and Islamic Thought. He is currently a PhD candidate at Georgetown University. His research investigates dichotomies in classical Islamic thought, including the dichotomies of sunna/bid'a, veridicality/tropicality, reason/tradition, word/meaning, and exoteric/esoteric.