Treading the path of salvation: The religious devotion of Shaqiq al-Balkhi, al-Harith al-Muhasibi, and Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz
<p>In the early ninth century Muslim renunciants developed the metaphor of devotion to God is a path to teach their disciples how to cultivate virtues that would enable them to escape attachment to the world. Alongside these virtues were ascetic practices, sometimes extreme, that demonstra...
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2015
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