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Margaret Smith (author)
Margaret Smith (born 1884) was a female scholar writing on early Christian and Muslim mysticism from an openminded Christian perspective. She was the first westerner to chronicle the lives of the Sufi mystic Rábi'a of Basra and compiled brief histories of other Sufi teachers and their doctrines, translating Arabic and Persian texts to English.
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