In his gripping book “The Fall of Constantinople 1453,” Steven Runciman notes that the Ottoman prince, who conquered the last remains of the Eastern Roman Empire known as the Byzantine Empire, the 1000-year-old capital Constantinople (modern Istanbul), Mehmet II the Conqueror, was educated by an Iranian Kurdish (descendants of the Medes) professor Ahmet Kurani, and was influenced by an Iranian Sufi dervish of apparently an Iranian sect called Hurufism (Letters) which was popular across Iran and the Balkans…Hurufism too states that the Divine is in WORDS and haven’t we discussed that since antiquity Indo-Iranian beliefs were based on WORDS and choosing the “right” poet???...Hurufism also states that the most possible sound that exists is 32 which is how many letters are in the Persian alphabet, and so on…with the influence of the Persian dervish on Mehmet, the influential Muslim clergy declared the Sufi “heretic” and had him thrown into the fire… Sufism which is mostly based on Iranian philosophy of oneness and direct access to the divine and the concept of “love” was a movement against Islamism and as such Islamic theologians have always regarded it as non-Islamic… [pic rugrag: “A Lady of Constantinople” by a pioneering early 20th c. Greco-Turkish artist and scholar Osman Hamdi Bey … the “Laleh Abbasi” design is clearly seen on the rug which is often seen in Iranian carpets from Kerman, Tabriz, Kashan, as well as tribal weavings…the painting is worth around $5 mil dollars…for educational purposes only]
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 02:14:40 +0000
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