Note 208 — TALE of ALI BIN BAKKAR and of SHAMS AL-NAHAR.
Richard Francis Burton translation
An unmarried man is not allowed to live in a respectable quarter of a Moslem city unless he takes such precaution. Lane (Mod. Egypt. passim) has much to say on this point; and my excellent friend the late Professor Spitta at Cairo found the native prejudice very troublesome.