Tao Te Ching

“Mohammedanism, like Christianity, was a developing and adjustable religion which would have startled a reborn Mohammed or Christ... Sufi devotees abandoned family life, lived in religious fraternities under a master, and called themselves dervish (mendicants). Some by prayer and meditation, some by ascetic self-denial, others in the exhaustion that followed wild dancing, sought to transcend the self and rise to a wonder-working unity with God.”

— Will Durant 1885 – 1981 CE
Philosophy apostle and popularizer of history's lessons
from Age of Faith