Travels in the Unknown East

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Summary: Window Into Recent Middle East History and Sufis
Review: "Over five decades ago, I made the first journeys recorded in this book. Now that this half-century is over, I am freed from the promises made then to avoid certain names and topics."

John Grant opens windows onto two mysterious worlds: that of recent middle eastern history and that of the Sufis. Through Grant, we meet both the aged wife of a courtier of the Turkish Sultan, and a close associate of Ataturk, creator of modern secular Turkey, among many other fascinating characters. And, we travel with him on a Sufi mission to advise groups that have mistaken habit and emotion for the search for truth.