Mystics, Monarchs, and Messiahs

Mystics, Monarchs, and Messiahs
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Publisher : Harvard CMES
Total Pages : 640
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ISBN-10 : 0932885284
ISBN-13 : 9780932885289
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Download or read book Mystics, Monarchs, and Messiahs written by Kathryn Babayan and published by Harvard CMES. This book was released on 2002 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on idealists and visionaries who believed that Justice could reign in our world, this book explores the desire to experience utopia on earth. Reluctant to await another existence, individuals with ghuluww, or exaggeration, emerged at the advent of Islam, expecting to attain the apocalyptic horizon of Truth.


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