A Thousand Sighs, A Thousand Revolts by Christiane Bird

Author:Christiane Bird
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780307430502
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2007-12-18T05:00:00+00:00

At the Kesnazan tekiye

In contrast to the rest of us, Othman was almost silent. He had close ties to the tekiye, and had seen the ceremony hundreds if not thousands of times before. “In the morning I am on the Internet with my daughter, and in the afternoon, I talk with my wife, who is a biologist,” he said gloomily. “But in the night, I must come here, into this superstitious world. I wish for it to end. The time for such things is past.” I understood what he meant, and guessed that he might be feeling defensive, but I also thought that when the time of the Qadiri ceremony is truly past, something astonishing will have gone out of the world.

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