Sublime

Sharia is derived from the Quran, exemplified in Muhammad’s life, and explained by imams.

The point is that one can refer to Muhammad’s community in Yathrib as the Ummah, but only insofar as that term is understood to designate what the Orientalist explorer Bertram Thomas has called a “super-tribe,” or what the historian Marshall Hodgson more accurately describes as a “neo-tribe”: that is, a radically new kind of social organization, bu

In Sufism, the mystical branch of Islam, al-Khiḍr is the supreme guide. Nearly every saint’s hagiography describes a visit from the Verdant One, who transmits wisdom or a potent prayer.

The most important surviving Cathar tract is The Book of the Two Principles, which was written in the 1240s, probably by John of Lugio, a Cathar from the Albanensian95 school, which was part of the absolutist church of Desenzano. It is ‘the most decisive evidence that the Cathars were evolving their own ideas about the nature of Dualism’,96 and wer