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Reza Aslan on Martyrdom, Islam, and Revolution

Conversations with Tyler

CHAPTER

Sufism and Shiism

"I grew up in a Shia family. But, you know, my religion was more a matter of my identity than really anything else," she says. "As an adult when I was studying the world's religions and still longing for some kind of spiritual edification of my own, I began to read about Sufi Islam." She adds: "Sufi Islam gave me the words for these ideas ... that I felt like I already had"

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