Les saints des derviches tourneurs 2 Volume Paperback Set (Cambridge Library Collection - Religion) (French Edition) - Softcover

9781108042345: Les saints des derviches tourneurs 2 Volume Paperback Set (Cambridge Library Collection - Religion) (French Edition)

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ISBN 10: 1108042341 ISBN 13: 9781108042345

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Cl�ment Huart (1854-1926) studied Middle Eastern languages and served as a French diplomat for twenty years before becoming Professor of Persian at the Ecole des Langues Orientales in Paris. This two-volume French translation (1918-22), published as part of a larger series on Islamic hagiography, focuses on the medieval founders of the Mevlevi order of whirling dervishes, whose main centre, Konya, Huart had visited twenty years earlier. The fourteenth-century Persian text is preserved in several manuscripts, and Huart's translation follows an early seventeenth-century manuscript from his private collection. Huart regards the text as providing evidence primarily about the intellectual and moral contexts of the origins of the dervishes' mystical movement rather than about strict historical facts, but also points to the relevance of its treatment of dreams, prophecies, apparitions and paranormal phenomena to modern researchers of hypnosis and psychosis. The translation is accompanied by explanatory notes.

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