The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2361 page)

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, who knew both positions at first hand, and demonstrated the part that both play in Islam.
From the experience of devotion to God, the S
f
poets, especially in Persia, produced works of enduring beauty and power. Among the earliest was P
r-i-An
r (‘Abdullah al-An
r
, d. 1088 (AH 481)), of Herat in Khuras
n.
Other memorable poets were Far
d al-D
n
‘A
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, ibn al-F

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