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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
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