The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 · Richard Francis Burton translation

Note 455
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.

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Every Guide-book, even the Reverend Porter's "Murray," gives a long account of this Christian Church 'verted to a Mosque.

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…asions, this to sell and that to buy; this to go to the Hammam and that to visit the Cathedral-mosque of the Banu Umayyah, the Ommiades, whose like is not in this world. [FN#455] Ajib also went, with his attendant eunuch, for solace and diversion to the city and the servant followed with a quarter-staff [FN#456] of almond-wood so heavy that if he struck a camel therewith the beast would never rise again. [FN#457] When the peop…

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Note 455TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.

Note 455
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.