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Al-Qushayri's Epistle on Sufism - Al-Risala Al Qushayriyya Fi 'ilm Al-Tasawwuf BISAC-COM054000 and much of the popularThe author of the Epistle on Sufism, Abu 'l Qasim al Qushayri (376 986 465 1074), was a famous Sunni scholar and mystic (Sufi) from Khurasan in Iran. His Epistle is probably the most popular Sufi manual ever . Written in 437 1045, it has served as a primary textbook for many generations of Sufi novices down to the present. In it, Al Qushayri gives us an illuminating insight into the everyday lives of Sufi devotees of the eighth to eleventh centuries