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Book SynopsisClÃment Huart (1854â1926) 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 (1918â22), 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 e
Table of ContentsPréface; 3. (Suite). Biographie de Djélâl-ed-dîn Roûmi; 4. Biographie du sultan des pauvres, mystère de Dieu parmi les hommes, parfait en situation et en parole, notre Maître Chems-ed-dîn Mohammed ben 'Ali ben Mélek-dad et-Tébrîzi; 5. Biographie du Sultan des mystiques, Calâh-ed-dîn Féridoûn, fils de Yaghi-Siyan de Qonya, connu sous le nom de Zerkoûb (batteur d'or); 6. Biographie de Hosâm-ed-dîn Hasan ben Mohammed ben Hasan ben Akhi-Turk, l'Abou-Yézîd [Bastâmi] de l'époque, le Djonéïd du temps, clef des trésors du Trône, Saint de Dieu sur la terre, intercesseur des amis au jour de la Grande Revue; 7. Biographie de notre Maître, le Sultan des mystiques, le lieu de la manifestation des mystères de la certitude, Béhâ-ed-dîn Wéled; 8. Biographie du souverain des mystiques, argument des clairvoyants, Pôle des Abdâl et des Autâd, Djélâl-ed-dîn Féridoûn, fils de Mohammed, fils de Mohammed, fils de Mohammed, le mystique de Balkh [Amir 'Abid]; 9. Biographie du Tchélebi Chems-ed-dîn Amir 'Arif; 10. Noms des enfants et des successeurs de notre grand Maître Béhâ-ed-dîn Wéled Balkhî; Index.
