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From Pat Deveney's database:
Lumiere d'Orient. Although the journal was called "bimensuelle" the first two issues (probably the only published) were published a month apart, with the issue of October announcing that in the future it would appear twice a month. This was a very short-lived approach by Papus to present to the West a sympathetic view of Islam that was philosophical rather than political, though it did have articles and excerpts on economic and social subjects about the Near East, especially Turkey. It was probably part of Papus's attempt to unify the mystical and occult traditions of the East and West that was reflected in his |
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| Lumiere d'Orient V1 N1 Sep 1892 | |
| Lumiere d'Orient V1 N2 Oct 1892 | |
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Lumière d'Orient is a French-language journal of Islam rather than of the occult. Its sampled pages carry a translation of the Qur'an, Ottoman administrative notices dated by the Turkish calendar, and a 'Philosophy and Religion' feature by Abdullah Quilliam, the British convert who headed the Liverpool Muslim Institute — the signature of Franco-Ottoman Muslim journalism around 1900. It sits largely outside the taxonomy that governs this corpus: the nearest available slot is Islamic esotericism, but the material sampled is exoteric Islam — law, scripture, institutional life — presented to a Western readership in a comparative-religion frame. Keyword panels that read its ordinary French words 'esprit,' 'séance' and 'succès' as spiritualism or New Thought are simply misfiring. It is included here only for completeness, with the light, honest bands its actual subject earns. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Perennial Philosophy and Comparative Religion | Sufism and Islamic Esotericism |
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