 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1855 - 554 pages
...ago initiated me into his order, the Kadiriyah, under the high-sounding name of BismillahShah : aud, after a due period of probation, he graciously elevated me to the proud position of a Murshid in the mystic craft. I was therefore sufficiently well acquainted with the tenets and practices of... | |
 | 1855 - 554 pages
...ago initiated me into his order, the Kadiriyah, under the high.sounding name of BismillahShah : aud, after a due period of probation, he graciously elevated me to the proud position of a Murshid in the mystic craft. I was therefore sufficiently well acquainted with the tenets and practices of... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1855 - 424 pages
...ago initiated me into his order, the Kadiriyah, under the high-sounding name of Bismillah-Shah J : and, after a due period of probation, he graciously elevated me to the proud position of a Murshid § in the mystic craft. I was therefore sufficiently well ac* The Persian " Mister." In future chapters... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1856 - 686 pages
...reports, he says, fly quicker and hit harder than newspaper paragraphs. No character (writes Mr. Burton) in the Moslem world is so proper for disguise as that of the Dervish. It is assumed by all ranks, ages, and creeds ; by * Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1856 - 684 pages
...reports, he says, fly quicker and hit harder than newspaper paragraphs. No character (writes Mr. Burton) in the Moslem world is so proper for disguise as that of the Dervish. It is assumed by all ranks, ages, and creeds; by tbe nobleman who has been disgraced at court,... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1857 - 458 pages
...and, after a due period of probation, he graciously elevated me to the proud position of a Murshid § in the mystic craft. I was therefore sufficiently...Moslem world is so proper for disguise as that of the Dervish. It is assumed by all ranks, ages, and creeds ; by the nobleman who has been disgraced at court,... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton, Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1879 - 576 pages
...of Bismilluh-Shah — " Kiug-iu-the-name-of-Allah," u manner of Oriental " Praise-God-Barebones " : and, after a due period of probation, he graciously elevated me to the proud position of Murshid, or Master,1 in the mystic craft. I was therefore sufficiently well acquainted with the tenets... | |
 | Francis Hitchman - Authors, English - 1887 - 478 pages
...name for the part of dervish which he had now to play. Of this part of dervish, Burton says : — ' No character in the Moslem world is so proper for disguise as that of the dervish. It is assumed by all ranks, ages, and creeds ; by the nobleman who has been disgraced at court,... | |
 | Michael Wolfe - History - 1997 - 660 pages
...time ago initiated me into his order, the Qadiriyya, under the high-sounding name of Bismillah Shah* and, after a due period of probation, he graciously...proud position of a murshid? or master in the mystic ctaft. I was therefore sufficiently well acquainted with the tenets and practices of these Oriental... | |
 | Parama Roy - History - 2023 - 252 pages
...a figure of total subjective license in the Islamic world, bound by no orthodoxies or regulations: No character in the Moslem world is so proper for...Darwaysh. It is assumed by all ranks, ages, and creeds; . . . Further, the Darwaysh is allowed to ignore ceremony and politeness, as one who ceases to appear... | |
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Master in the mystic craft. I was therefore sufficiently well acquainted with the tenets and practices of these Oriental Freemasons. No character in the Moslem world is so proper for disguise as that of the Darwaysh. 
