Gerakan Freemason era Ottoman turut mendapat penyertaan golonag elit Muslim Turki. Antara nama tokoh yang menyertai Freemason adalah Mustapha Fazil, Prince Murad dan penulis Namik Kemal. Mereka menyertai Freemason di bawah naungan lodge kendalian Greek. Yang lainnya adalah the grand vizier Mustafa Reshid Pasha yang menyertai Freemason atas pelawaan Lord Rading. Mustafa Reshid Pasha juga merupakan penggerak utama usaha reform Ottoman Turki.
The Greek lodge “I Proodos” (Progress) owed to one of its members, the banker Cleanthi Scalieri, the recruitment of nearly twenty important names of the Ottoman elite, the most renowned of them being Mustafa Fazil, a member of the Egyptian khedivial family, the Imperial Prince Murad, and the prolific writer Namik Kemal.
Antara yang keras menentang Freemason pula adalah Ethem Pertev Pasha (1824-1871), yang pernah memegang jawatan who served Governor of Kastamonu. Antara lain gerakan pimpinan Ethem Pasha menegas bahawa 'It insistingly maintains that Islam and freemasonry are incompatible and that the sole target of freemasons is to convert Moslems to Christianity '.
Tokoh Eropah merupakan pelopor berpengaruh yang mengembang Freemason ke wilayah Ottoman Turki. Dua tokh penting adalah Lord Rading dan Lord Henry Bulwer, kedua-dua merka adalah dip;omat British.
Lord Rading and Lord Henry Bulwer, both of them British ambassadors to the Sublime Porte, are considered to be at the origin of the masonic trend in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish anti-masonic circles still present them as the main responsible for Ottoman decay.
Baca juga "The 4th Earl of Carnarvon (1831-1890) and freemasonry in the British Empire. tesis sheffield uni 2010 (link).
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