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^^^^^^ Myst ^M AND !i. Magic N^^^ Turkey U-visioa Section B?n5 .I)4G-Z3 UysM MYSTICISM AND MAGIC IN TURKEY By the Same Author . Turkey of the Ottomans. In imperial 16mo, cloth gilt top, with about 30 page 6s. " plate full illustrations. net. There could better — gilt, handbook hardly be a for the news- paper reader who wants to understand all the conditions of the danger zone. ' Spectator. I I <> I w f.r-^ w I—! w K'n'./ -^ MYSTICISM AND MAGIC IN TURKEY AN ACCOUNT OF THE RELIGIOUS DOCTRINES, MONASTIC ORGANISATION. AND ECSTATIC POWERS OF THE DERVISH ORDERS BY I LUCY M. J. GARNETT AUTHOR OF THE TURKISH PEOPLE," "TURKEY OF THE OTTOMANS," ETC. TRANSLATOR OF "GREEK FOLK-POESY " ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 153-157 Fifth 1912 Avenue • 1912 PREFACE My aim in this volume has been to give a thoroughlyimpartial account of the Dervishes of Turkey, so my knowledge of their principles far as will allow, neither unduly concealing their lower, unduly exalting their higher aspects. nor I and practices would hope that fain Mystics of Islam may this brief And study of the be found to have not only a speculative and religious, but also a practical and political interest. In controversies with respect to Islam and Civilisation, no account of the Mystical side of this of is usually taken Creed as a native element antagonism to the most essential doctrines of Islam. Widespread as cism, has been, and it is this still is to a certain extent hidden. unorthodox mysti- compelled to keep itself Events may, however, possibly, sooner or later, bring and endow it to the surface, with practical significance. it as in the Christian West there has For ever been a continuous protest both on the intellectual side by philosophers, against the and on the rehgious more Christianity, so it side by mystics, distinctively Semitic doctrines of has also been in the Moslem East in the Schools of the Dervishes, both among the And as this speculative Persians and the Ottomans. PREFACE VI protest by the Monks practical results in of Islam has not Persia, so may been without likewise be it expected to have corresponding results in Turkey. From the Siifism of the Dervish Orders sprang the movement of Babism, the initiation of which was contemporary with uprising of '48. the European revolutionary This movement, which was sup- pressed with the most barbarous atrocities, gave greater promise than any other event connected with the East of that only possible kind of regeneration —regeneration movement from And should a similar to that of Babism, and, like i