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THE SECRET TEMPLE BY ÖMER SEYFETTIN TRANSLATED FROM THE TURKISH BY BERNARD LEWIS Princeton The other day at the Tokatlian Sermet introduced a young Frenchman to me, a friend of his from the Sorbonne. A handsome, charming youngster, with chestnut hair and china blue eyes. An impassioned enthusiast of the "Glamour of the East". His first words were: - You don't know yourselves. You imagine that Europe is worth something, and you neither see your own beauties nor live your own mysteries. I smiled at this rebuke, though I couldn't decide, on the spur of the moment, whether it was right or wrong. - What do you know about what we don't see and what we don't t live?... - I've seen it with my own eyes, he said excitedly. I've spent the last three days in Sermet's house. Everything "a la franca"; the dining room, the bedroom, his wife's and brother's clothes and movements, even their minds and thoughts were all European. Ah, where is the Turkey of Pierre Loti? - Loti's Turkey is on the other side, in old Istanbul, I said. - Yes, that's what they say, but it's a world that one can't get
Die Welt des Islams – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1988
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