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Epistles of Wisdom
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “corpus of sacred texts and pastoral letters by teachers of the druze faith”. Today it says “corpus of sacred texts and pastoral letters by teachers of the druze faith native to the levant”.
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Epistles of Wisdom ( Arabic : رَسَائِل ٱلْحِكْمَة , romanized : Rasāʾil al-Ḥikma ) is a corpus of sacred texts and pastoral letters by teachers of the Druze faith native to the Levant , which has currently close to a million practitioners. The text revolves around the acknowledgement and worship of al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah as the last and definite incarnation of the One God , a belief which Druze define as 'Monotheism' (Arabic: Tawhid).
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “corpus of sacred texts and pastoral letters by teachers of the druze faith”. Today it says “corpus of sacred texts and pastoral letters by teachers of the druze faith native to the levant”. Read the current article and compare.
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corpus of sacred texts and pastoral letters by teachers of the druze faith
Now
corpus of sacred texts and pastoral letters by teachers of the druze faith native to the levant
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