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      Front: Young smoker. Detail of a bowl, Turkey, 11th/17th c. (Brussels, Musée du Cinquantenaire).

      Back: Turkish coffee-house (J. Ludwigsohn, Constantinople, c. 1900).

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       Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword by Mohammad Akram Nadwi

Preface

Introduction

A Forgotten Puritan from Anatolia

The Complexities of a Radical Pietism

       How to Turn Down an English Present

       Recycling One’s Own Writings

       “Cheating about the Religion of God…”

       Translation

       Edition

       Appendix

       Bibliography

       Indexes

       Qur’ānic Verses

       Ḥadīths of the Prophet

       Geographical Terms

       Persons, Groups, Doctrines

       Keywords and Concepts

       Transcribed Words

      SOME eat a sort of opium called benghilik, or henebane, which renders them more or less stupid and entertains them with the different visions that their mind, muddled by these vapours, presents to them; just as those who smoke tobacco may, in their melancholy, draw some satisfaction from the variety of clouds and figures that smoke creates in the air when it comes out of their pipes.

      Albertus Bobovius (‘Alī

      Ufkī Bey), Topkapi, p. 136 (c. 1665)

List of Illustrations

      Ottoman basmala (13th/19th c.)

      Tobacco, flower and fruit (from Larousse du XXe siècle)

      A Baqtāsh darvish inhaling hashīsh (from J. P. Brown, Dervishes, p. 342)

      Smokers playing chess (from C. de Bruyn, Voyages, 1732)

      Ghazī Hasan Bābā (from J. P. Brown, Dervishes, p. 289)

      Title pages of S. B. al-Shikārpūrī, Khazīna (Delhi, 1283[/1866] and pseudo-Shāh Walīullāh, al-Balāgh al-mubīn (India, 13th/19th c.)

      First page of the Risāleh dukhāniyyeh. MSS. Harput 429, f. 194v., and Darülmesnevi 258, f. 70v.

      Muezzins (Turkey, 11th/17th c.; from F. Taeschner, Volksleben)

      The Death of Mustapha (from J. A. Guer, Moeurs, 1747)

      Ornamental capital with smoker (from J. Morier, Adventures, p. 351)

      Two smokers. Details from miniatures (Turkey, 11th/17th c.; from MS. A.365, Costumi orientali, Bologna, Biblioteca Comunale dell’Archiginnasio, and from F. Taeschner, Volksleben)

      Tobacco plant, European smoking (from A. Chute, Tabacco, 1595)

      Istanbul’s Egyptian Bazaar (from The Illustrated London News, 1853)

      Exhaling through the nose and Turk smoking (from E. R. Billings, Tobacco, 1875)

      Turkish Coffee-house (from The Illustrated London News, 1853)

      Tobacco field in Syria and Turkish tobacco going to market (from E. R. Billings, Tobacco, 1875)

      A Street in Constantinople (from Le Magasin Pittoresque, 1840)

      Street tobacco seller stand and

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