Against Smoking. Ahmad al-Rumi al-Aqhisari

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       Against Smoking

       An Ottoman Manifesto

      Aḥmad al-Rūmī al-Aqḥiṣārī

      (d. 1041/1631 or 1043/1634)

       Against Smoking

       An Ottoman Manifesto

      Introduction, Editio Princeps and Translation

       by

      YAHYA MICHOT

       Foreword by

      MOHAMMAD AKRAM NADWI

      Interface Publications – Kube Publishing

      1431/2010

      COVER PHOTOGRAPHS

      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

       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)

      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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