Identifier: opencourt19_590caru (find matches)
Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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IN TERIOR OF THE COPTIC CATHEDRAL, CAIRO. We enjoyed every possible attention in this intelligent and cul-tured Moslem family—receiving many visits, both ^Moslem andChristian. Every day His Excellency received, at his table, men 420 THE OPEN COURT. of learning-, distinction, and piety: Arabs, Tnrks, and Europeans,—which afforded us the rare opportunity of studying Mussuhiians intheir own milieu. I was, unfortunately, the only lady present.
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GRAND MOSOUE OE EL-AZIIAR, CAIRO. Here we made the acquaintance of the Sheik Ali-Youssef, thedistino-uished editor of the leading Arabic newspaper in Egypt, El-Moavad. one of the most notable leaders of the National party, ai)rogressive mind, and ))romoter of all salutary reforms. GLIMPSES OF ISLAM IN EGYPT. 421 We had expected much from Cairo, but the first view and im-pression of this strange and unique city were overpowering. Itwas permanent phantasmagoria ;—very human but withal somethingsuper-human. The mind could not seize or comprehend it: andit was onlv when we mounted the citadel, and rose high above itsmixed and mottled humanity, and looked out over the marvelousmetropolis, a forest of minarets and domes.—over the majestic Nile,—bevond the deserted city of the Tombs of the Khalifs, away tothe distant Delta, wdth its deep, dark verdure.—out to the yellowdesert belt—to tlie Arabian hills on the east, and the Lybian moun-tains on the west, which bind within this narro

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