Of the Turks Gouslu or Purification.
Nor is it enough for the Turks to wash them∣selves all over in their Baths, after Abdest (of which I shall discourse in the next place) they are
A late voyage to Constantinople containing an exact description of the Proportis and Hellespont, with the Dardanels, and what else is remarkable in those seas, as also of the city of Constantinople ... : likewise an account of the ancient and present state of the Greek Church, with the religion and manner of worship of the Turks, their ecclesiastical government, their courts of justice, and civil employments : illustrated ... in fourteen copper-plates ... / published by command of the French King by Monsieur William Joseph Grelot ; made English by J. Philips.
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- A late voyage to Constantinople containing an exact description of the Proportis and Hellespont, with the Dardanels, and what else is remarkable in those seas, as also of the city of Constantinople ... : likewise an account of the ancient and present state of the Greek Church, with the religion and manner of worship of the Turks, their ecclesiastical government, their courts of justice, and civil employments : illustrated ... in fourteen copper-plates ... / published by command of the French King by Monsieur William Joseph Grelot ; made English by J. Philips.
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- Grelot, Guillaume-Joseph, b. ca. 1630.
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- London :: Printed by John Playford, and are to be sold by Henry Bonwicke ...,
- 1683.
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"A late voyage to Constantinople containing an exact description of the Proportis and Hellespont, with the Dardanels, and what else is remarkable in those seas, as also of the city of Constantinople ... : likewise an account of the ancient and present state of the Greek Church, with the religion and manner of worship of the Turks, their ecclesiastical government, their courts of justice, and civil employments : illustrated ... in fourteen copper-plates ... / published by command of the French King by Monsieur William Joseph Grelot ; made English by J. Philips." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A42086.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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obliged to rinse their bodyes, in some particular Bath, after any extraordinary evacuation in the night, whether they have lain alone, or with company. This purification is perform'd in a great square Tub or Vessel, fill'd every morning, and not empty'd till night. This is that Vessel which the Ancients call'd Labrum or Oceanum, and the Turks Aouz Gousli. Now in regard they never make use of this Purification, till they have been in the Bath, and us'd the Abdest, they soon make an end of this Ceremony; for they do no more than plung•• themselves three or four times in the water, and so give way to another, till they have all done that needed such Purification.
Now though the number of these Rinsers be very great, considering the Marry'd men are ty'd to this Purification as well as the Batchelours, nevertheless they never change the water, till every one has rins'd himself, and in the action said the usual Prayer, La illa illalla, Allam dulilla, Alla hecher, or some other to the same purpose.