Prophets, saints, martyrs, sages, and seers—one of the richest repositories of lore about such exemplary religious figur
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Table of contents :
Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
PART I. Stages in the Lives of God’s Friends
PART II. Friends of God in Context
PART III. Friends in Theory
Notes
Index
Friends of God
frontispiece. This plan of the Prophet’s mosque in Medina, al-Haram an-Nabawım, shows (with green domes) the burial places of Muhammad and Famtima (top left); Muhammad’s wife Zaynab (in courtyard); in the cemetery at bottom: Muhammad’s uncle