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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1

Note 608 — THE HUNCHBACK'S TALE. (continued 2)

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

"Ay w' Alláhi," contracted popularly to Aywa, a word in every Moslem mouth and shunned by Christians because against orders Hebrew and Christian. The better educated Turks now eschew that eternal reference to Allah which appears in The Nights and which is still the custom of the vulgar throughout the world of Al-Islam.

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