An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians, Volumen2 |
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An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians: Written in ... Edward William Lane Vista de fragmentos - 1978 |
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Página 286 - ... or wilwa'l; uttering the most piercing shrieks, and calling upon the name of the deceased. The most common cries that are heard on the death of the master of a family, from the lips of his wife, or wives, and children, are
Página 368 - Small ones of iron are worn by many children. It was also a common custom among the Arabs for girls or young women to wear a string of bells on their feet. I have seen many little girls in Cairo with small round bells attached to their anklets. Perhaps it is to the sound of ornaments of this kind, rather than of the more common anklet, that Isaiah alludes
Página 254 - ... be reasonable; GOD is mighty and wise. And unto those who are divorced, a reasonable provision is also due ; this is a duty incumbent on those who fear GOD. Thus GOD declareth his signs unto you, that ye may understand. Hast thou not considered those, who left their habitations, (and they were thousands) for fear of death...
Página 114 - generally seats himself upon a small stool on the mastabah, or raised seat which is built against the front of the coffee-shop ; some of his auditors occupy the rest of that seat, others arrange themselves upon the mastabahs of the houses on the opposite side of the narrow street, and the rest sit upon stools or benches made of palm-sticks ; most of them with the pipe in hand, some sipping their coffee, and all highly amused, not only with the story, but also with the lively and dramatic manner of...
Página 305 - Two or three or more of them then recite, each, an " 'ashr," or about two or three verses of the Kur-an. This done, one of them asks his companions, " Have ye transferred [the merit of] what ye have recited to the soul of the deceased...
Página 355 - The kurs, being of considerable weight, is at first painful to wear ; and women who are in the habit of wearing it complain of headache when they take it off ; hence they retain it day and night; but some have an inferior one for the bed. Some ladies have one for ordinary wearing ; another for particular occasions, a little larger and handsomer ; and a third merely to wear in bed.— The other kind of kurs,
Página 237 - These fulfil their vow, and dread the day, the evil whereof will disperse itself far abroad; and give food unto the poor, and the orphan, and the bondman, for his sake, saying, We feed you for God's sake only: we desire no recompense from you, nor any thanks: verily we dread, from our Lord, a dismal and calamitous day.
Página 195 - ... composed for this purpose, and intended only to have a spiritual sense (though certainly not understood in such a sense by the generality of the vulgar *) ; I cannot entertain any doubt as to the design of Solomon's Song. The specimens which I have just given of the religious love-songs of the Muslims have not been selected in preference to others as most agreeing with that of Solomon ; but as being in frequent use ; and the former of the two as having been sung at the zikr which I have begun...
Página 173 - Allah!' but with a rapidity proportionably greater. This motion they maintained for about the same length of time that the whirling of the single durweesh before had occupied; after which the whole party sat down to rest. They rose again, after the lapse of about a quarter of an hour, and performed the same exercises a second time.
Página 172 - Most of the darweeshes were Egyptians ; but there were among them many Turks and Persians. I had not waited many minutes before they began their exercises. Several of them first drove back the surrounding crowd with sticks ; but as no stick was raised at me...