Sheffield Lectures Vol. 1 published by the Centre for Research into Freemasonry

19.04.2009

Sheffield Lectures on the History of Freemasonry and Fraternalism 
Volume No. 1 - Freemasonry & Fraternalism in the Middle East

published by the Centre for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism (CRFF), University of Sheffield 

The volume Freemasonry and Fraternalism in the Middle East comes out of a series of lectures held in the autumn of 2008. The CRFF succeeded in attracting leading international specialists to deliver lectures on this hitherto largely neglected field of research. The scope of the papers ranged from the early eighteenth-century up to the beginning of the twentieth-century and included topics related to the Ottoman Empire, Iran and India.

Table of Contents 

Acknowledgements 

Introduction 
Andreas Önnerfors 

French Pre-Masonic Fraternities, Freemasonry and Dervish Orders in the Muslim World 
Thierry Zarcone 

Early Freemasonry in Late Ottoman Syria from the Nineteenth Century Onwards – The First Masonic Lodges in the Beirut Area 
Dorothe Sommer 

The Star in the East: Occultist Perceptions of the Mystical Orient 
Isaac Lubelsky 

Freemasonry and the Constitutional Revolution in Iran: 1905-1911 
Mangol Bayat 

Ottoman Freemasonry and Laicity 
Paul Dumont 

Postlude 
Andreas Önnerfors 

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