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Sufis and Anti-Sufis: The Defence, Rethinking and Rejection of Sufism in the Modern World, Elizabeth Sirriyeh, London: Curzon Press 1999, ISBN: 0–7007–10582 (cloth) 0–700710604 (paper) viii + 188 pp.
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