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Venerable High Priest of a Fanatical Sect of Islam

VENERABLE HIGH PRIEST OF A FANATICAL SECT OF ISLAM

As he walks the cloisters of the old mosque on the hills outside the walls of Salonica, his stern face, beneath the flower pot-shaped hat of camel hair, speaks of great mystical power. He is the High Priest of the few remaining members of the Macedonian branch of Dancing Dervishes, and his confraternity, known as the Mevlevi sect, is held in much higher estimation than that of the Howling Dervishes