SOURCE: "Al-Bīrūnī and Islamic Mysticism," in Hamdard Islamicus, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1978, pp. 53-70.
[In the essay that follows, Lawrence contends that al-Bīrūnī's account of Islamic mysticism, specifically Sūfism, exemplifies his approach to knowledge in general—careful observation and documentation in an attempt to comprehend the unfamiliar.]
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