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Patrick Laude
Patrick Laude is a professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar, where he teaches Religious Studies. He studied at the Université Paris-Sorbonne, the Ecole Normale Supérieure and Indiana University, and is the author of over a dozen books on mysticism and esoteric religion.