Clement 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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