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More on some Sufis’ attitudes towards and experience of phenomena like telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, or more generally miracles, magic, or “ESP.”

Here’s one account at one remove, by the professor of theology A. Guillame in his “Islam” (London, 1954, p. 152), about a researcher and traveler (Lane) recounting what he learned from a Muslim who once was a disciple in a dervish order but broke away from it:

>[Lane] mentions the regret which a converted Muslim felt at having to abandon these religious exercises. It is interesting to note that this particular man said that as a dervish he had developed unusual telepathic power, so that he knew what was going on at a distance and could even hear words that were spoken there. Claims to such powers are commonplace in Sufi literature. Certainly stories one has heard from people of unimpeachable veracity confirm the existence of very remarkable powers, whatever the explanation may be.