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ONCE UPON A TIME, ACCORDING TO A STORY RECOUNTED BY THE Islamic chronicler al-Maqrizi (1364-1442) in AD 1155, the founder of the Persian Sufi Hyderi sect, Haydar, left his cell in a monastery in the mountains near Neyshaur, in the Khorasan region of north-eastern Iran, and went out for a walk.

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  1. Martin Booth (Author)
 

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