…from Chapter III of Czesław Miłosz’s book “The Captive Mind”:
This chapter draws upon the writings of Arthur de Gobineau, a 19th-century French diplomat assigned to present-day Iran. In his Religions and Philosophies of Central Asia, Gobineau describes the practice of Ketman, the act of paying lip service to Islam while concealing secret opposition. Describing the practice as widespread throughout the Islamic World, Gobineau quotes one of his informants as saying, “There is not a single true Moslem in Persia.” Gobineau further describes the use of Ketman to secretly spread heterodox views to people who believe that they are being taught Islamic orthodoxy. Miłosz describes seven forms of Ketman applied in the People’s Republics of the 20th century…
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