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Present State of the Mahometan Religion in Turkey . [ From Hobhouse ' s Journey , 8 cc . &c . ( see M . Repos . p . 433 . ) pp . 912—925 . ] The * descriptions of Rycaut ( and much earlier writers might be
mentioned ) apply to the Mussulmans of Constantinople at this day , as much as to those of the seventeenth century , and the decay of their relative strength , as an European power , has but little affected their national character .
The Mahometan religion has prevented , and ever will prevent , any material change in the individual condition , and consequently the character of the Turks . The light thrown upon the
manners and customs of this people during the last hundred years , has left it unnecessary to disabuse the world on the subject of the religion of Mahomet . The times
are past , when the Mussulmans were charged with believing that God is a corporeal Being , the author of evil , without providence , and not eternal ; that the soul is
mortal ; that the devils are friends of Mahomet , and of God ; that Venus is the proper object of worship ; that man was created of a leach ; and many other absurdities , originating only in the ignorance of their accusers . *
Pope Pius II . in a Letter to the SukAn of the Turks , made the first charge ; Cedrenus the second 5 the same Pope the third -, Bartholirms of
Odessa the fourth , and fifth ; Polydore Virgil tttfc tfitfffk ; Johannes Andreas thte seventh ; the great Selden , in his 4 th chap , on the Syrian Deities , the if hth ; and Eutheimua Zigalenus the
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Into the doctrinal part of their religion the Turks do not enquire but content themselves with an implicit faith in the one eternal Deity , in his angels , in the pro . phets , in the day of resurrection
and judgment , in the decrees of God , and in the virtue of purifu cation , prayer , alms and f . istiug . There are some of their priests , as might be expected , who disturb themselves with the subtleties of
the controversialists , and engrafting upon the simplicity ot the original law a variety of strange creeds , have established sects , the opinions of which , if we are to believe some writers * are riot onlv believe some writersare riot only
, different from , but altogether inconsistent with , tbe iaiib of Ma * hornet . Rycaut mentions one brotherhood , whose mystery , which it required a long noviciate to penetrate , consisted in a profession of atheism , and a practice of the most horrid debaucheries ;
but Islamism can no more be affected by such a perversity , than the religion of England by tfie monks of Medenham . The sect does not , as far as I
could learn , exist at this day * but institutions and practices np less foreign to the original ra'th , may stilt be found . Such are tfie invocations of dead , and the
relast . Syiburgius accuses Mahorflet of having caMed the Bleased Virgin the sister of Moses ; and . Bartholinus o * Odessa upbraids the &oran for &YlP 9 that she was impregnated by eacirffc dates . Those who would sde thq ov & * and refutation of thc « e follies , maf CQ ?" suit the second bookjpf A ^ rian , ^ R ^ jpfc System of the Matomctaii Tncologjr «
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1813, page 630, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2433/page/6/
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