Identifier: antiquitiesofori00reddrich (find matches)
Title: Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Redding, M. W. (Moses Wolcott) Guide to Mount Moriah, Author of
Subjects: Bible Middle East -- Antiquities
Publisher: New York, Temple Publishing Union
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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your guns,take your pistols, arm yourselves with the lance andyataghan : rendezvous at Deir-el-Kammar. Zeal ofGod, zeal of combats. These cries, from the still-ness of the night and their long resounding ech(^es,had something awful in their effect; and, as if bymagic, an army was immediately assembled at theappointed place. In regard to matrimony the Druzes are very ex-clusive, as their clannishness renders them averse toforming such alliances outside of their own people.They invariably prefer their own relations, thoughpoor, to the wealthy stranger ; and indigent peasantsfrequently refuse their daughters to the rich merchantsof the large towns. The Druze takes but one wife. The young menusually marry at the age of 18, and the girls at 14.Three days before that fixed for a marriage, thebridegroom, accompanied by some young men of hisown age, all well armed, proceed to formally demandthe bride of her father, who awaits the party armedcap-a-pie, on the threshhold of his door; and there
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\U^2i i>i ^^ -^-iij^ 11 >\IP ^. f gives his final sanction to the contract. The youngmen fix the dowry (maahr) to be settled by thebridegroom on his intended, and he promises herfamily that he will make her happy. The betrothedgirl appears, but closely veiled, and accompanied byher mother, and other female relatives, when themother guarantees the unblemished honor of hercliild. Upon this the young man pops the questionto the fair one himself, who replies,— ueUe tak (Iaccept you), at the same time presenting him with akhan jar sewed up in a red and white kefileh, usuallyof wool, and wrought with her own hands. TheKhanjar is a token of the protection she expectsfrom her husband; but it is likewise an instru-ment destined to expiate her guilt if she has trifledwith her maiden honor, violates her marriage vow,—■or even fails in her duty as an obedient and duteouswife. All parties then enter the house; and thebride proceeds to the bath, where she spends the daywith her companio

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