They recount Islamic and Gnostic poems and epics containing mythological, historical or legendary themes.

UNESCO: Culture

Nav?y? is the most widespread magham: diverse, vocal, rhythmless, accompanied by Gnostic poems.

UNESCO: Culture

As I've grown older, I appreciate more than ever before the strength of this figure, Jesus, who emerges in the four canonical Gospels, and the Gnostic gospels, as a witty, intelligent, complex, inspiring, and often contradictory person.

CNN: Seeking the truth about Jesus

In recent decades, with the discovery of the Gnostic gospels, we have been told once again that the Church silenced competing voices covered up the fact that some early Christian communities may have had far more stringent requirements than Rome, that they deplored the world, that they routinely had visions.

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