Note 399 — KAMAR AL-ZAMAN AND THE JEWELLER’S WIFE.[375]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
The fiction may have been suggested by the fact that in all Moslem cities from India to Barbary the inner and outer gates are carefully shut during the noontide devotions, not “because Friday is the day on which creation was finished and Mohammed entered Al-Medinah;” but because there is a popular idea that in times now approaching the Christians will rise up against the Moslems during prayers and will repeat the “Sicilian Vespers.”