Melchert identifies three stages in the development of early Islamic piety. As the conquest period wound down in the early eighth century, renunciants spent nights weeping, reciting the Qur'an, and performing supererogatory ritual prayers. Later i
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Melchert identifies three stages in the development of early Islamic piety. As the conquest period wound down in the early eighth century, renunciants spent nights weeping, reciting the Qur'an, and performing supererogatory ritual prayers. Later i
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