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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 (of 10)

Note 12 — MA’ARUF THE COBBLER AND HIS WIFE FATIMAH.

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

This is a true picture of the leniency with which women were treated in the Kazi’s court at Cairo; and the effect was simply deplorable. I have noted that matters have grown even worse since the English occupation, for history repeats herself; and the same was the case in Afghanistan and in Sind. We govern too much in these matters, which should be directed not changed, and too little in other things, especially in exacting respect for the conquerors from the conquered.

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