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"So-named absorption in God, regarded as the goal of the Sufi seeker, is in fact only the beginning," warned Al Ghazzali, the Persian whose book, The Authority of Islam, was known and studied throughout Europe in the Middle Ages by Christians and Jews as well as his co-religionists, Mohammedans. He spent fourteen years investigating all available teachings during wide travels throughout Oriental lands; he went into the desert for solitary meditation for twelve years and is honoured as a great Master in those lands.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 6 : Islamic Cultures, Egypt > # 38