Identifier: cairojerusalemda01marg (find matches)
Title: Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus:
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Margoliouth, David Samuel, 1858-1940. (from old catalog) Tyrwhitt, Walter Spencer-Stanhope, 1859-1932, (from old catalog) illus
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Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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it till hehad paid the sum assigned him by the Master, whichwas taken from him by violence. The lazy crowdwould stand in the streets and besprinkle each otherwith dirty water, throw raw eggs in each othersfaces and interchange missiles of mats and shoes.Ail the streets were blocked and traffic stopped.Houses and shops were ail locked up, and any personfound in the market, whatever his eminence orstation, would be rudely accosted, besprinkled withdirty water, pelted with raw eggs and bufïeted withshoes. Neither buying nor selling was permitted,and the people drank wine and committed other im-proprieties in places of public récréation. Thebrawling that ensued led to the loss of many lives.A more pleasant feature of the célébration was thatpeople sent each other présents of fruit—pomegran-ates, almonds, quinces, apples, dates, grapes, melons,fîgs, peaches, pots of chicken jelly, barrels of rose-water, trays of Cairene sweets. Barkuk, whose name means Apricot, and had to be (172)
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THE EARLY CIRCASSIAN MAMELUKES banished from the fruiterers vocabulary so long ashe reigned, made a sort of alliance with the Otto-man Sultan Bayazid, and incurred the wrath of hisenemy the terrible Timur Lenk, who at this time wasdesolating the East. In order that there might beno truce, he proceeded to murder the envoy of theMongol world-conqueror—a proceeding which atthis time was normal in Oriental diplomacy. Thegreat encounter with Timur, however, was postponeduntil the following reign. A monument of the time of Barkuk is the school ofthe Emir Inal al-Yusufî, south of the Bab Zuwailah.The inscription which records the name of thefounder is on the neighbouring fountain, and is ofinterest, according to van Berchem, as being theearliest example of a poetical distich inscribed on afountain, to which in later times there were manyparallels. The founder was a celebrity of the time, who heldvarious offices and enjoyed many honours. Hefigures on the stage fîrst about the time when Ba

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