Books & Authors

A list of other books and authors mentioned in Death and the Dervish, 

with a note of reference

 I felt the need to take a book, the Koran, or some other, about morality, about great men, about holy days.

Hassan's gift lay on the bench: Abu Faraj's Book of Tales in an expensive Morocco binding with four golden birds in the corners.

I remembered the verses of Hussein-effendi of Mostar 

(wrote poetry under the name of Husami)

He marveled at Yusuf's Koran: "He's an artist, Sheikh-Ahmed, but you keep silent and hide him; you're afraid that they might take him away from you.  He reminds me of the famous Muberid.  Maybe his work is even more beautiful.  More passionate, more sincere.  Have you heard about Muberid, Mullah-Yusuf?"

Having passed in school through the fire of religious fervor, and still as a young man having learned Avecena's natural and critical philosophy with some free-minded, poor thinker, of which their are many in the East, and whom he often mentioned with affection and scorn, he entered into life with a burden that most of us bear: with the example of great men before his eyes and the desire to follow in their footsteps, but without any knowledge of petty men, who are the only ones we meet.