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Sufism in the Middle East
In 18 56, the traveller ubisini noted that the doctrine and institution of the sufis was nothing else than the sufism which existed in the east long previous to the coming of mahomedhe. The minor prophets of the hebrews, designated nabin were only the prototypes of the modern dervish. John the baptist, who lost his life for his temerity before herod's wife, acted exactly as hundreds of dervishes have done in later ages. So when robert graves speaks of identifiable sufi traces in literature antedating our era by three millennia,. He may well be speaking of the stream of transmission which is different only in appearance, not
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