Persian Darvishes — Spiritual Exercises — Hashīsh — The Occult Sciences — A List of Darvish Convents at Constantinople

It has been heretofore shown that the principles entertained by the more modern tarīqs, or Orders of the Darvishes, first became prominent in Persia and Bukhāra, though it is scarcely to be doubted that they originated in Arabia. From thence they travelled into Turkey, Syria, and Egypt, and even along the shores of the Mediterranean, as far as Morocco.