The book To Kairwân the Holy: Scenes in Muhammedan Africa was written by author Alexander Boddy Here you can read free online of To Kairwân the Holy: Scenes in Muhammedan Africa book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is To Kairwân the Holy: Scenes in Muhammedan Africa a good or bad book?
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A small boy cried " Dog, " " Kelb, " after me, but when I rewarded him with a copper coin he followed me with smiling face until he obtained another. We traverse the quiet city by narrow back streets, scarcely seeing any one as we pass along. Women scarcely ever move about in Kairwan ; " it is so very sacred. " That is the reason given, but it is a little uncomplimentary. The Kairwan ladies when they appear out of doors are invariably hidden in black haics, which completely envelop them, and th...eir faces are covered with black veils. It is the women of Kairwan who make most of the brilliant carpets which arc so much valued, and one of which lies now in a northern vicarage. At last we cmerg-e from the narrow streets MUHAMMED. THE GREAT MOSQUE. 169 to find ourselves before a long low line of white buildings, above which towers the great square Minar of the Djama '1 Kebir. This is none other than the mosque of Sidi Okhbah. Great Moorish doorways with melon-shaped fluted domes above their porches ; these open into the prayer chambers or into the great quadrangle where the Mitiar stands.
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