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An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians

Note 566 — Chapter XXV · PERIODICAL PUBLIC FESTIVALS, ETC.—continued.

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This is often called, by the vulgar, “the veil of sitna Fát’meh;” because it is said that Fátimeh Shegeret ed-Durr, the wife of the Sultán Es-Sáleh, was the first person who sent a veil of this kind to cover the door of the Kaabeh.

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