The Desert gateway, Biskra and thereabouts . y in the ben Messoud from that day became our frequentcompanion, and as he was a gentleman of educationand leisure, a pious Moslem, deeply learned in theKoran, the religious traditions, and other Arab litera-ture, and in many ways more ready to make clear tous anything in which we were interested than a lesscultured and enlightened Moslem would have been,our intercourse came to be one of our greatestpleasures. We remembered how travellers in Arabia hadsaid that no one who had not studied Islam in itsown lands could realise the minuteness a
The Desert gateway, Biskra and thereabouts . y in the ben Messoud from that day became our frequentcompanion, and as he was a gentleman of educationand leisure, a pious Moslem, deeply learned in theKoran, the religious traditions, and other Arab litera-ture, and in many ways more ready to make clear tous anything in which we were interested than a lesscultured and enlightened Moslem would have been,our intercourse came to be one of our greatestpleasures. We remembered how travellers in Arabia hadsaid that no one who had not studied Islam in itsown lands could realise the minuteness and themultiplicity of the rules which are continuallyobserved in all the common acts of daily life. Theposition of the thumbs at prayer may convict a manof flagrant heresy. We have said that Taib, our guide, was anexcellent companion; but it is to Ali, so deeplyversed in everything connected with his religion, thatwe came to be indebted for whatever insight wegained into the life of the Arabs. And if we were curious about the native life of. i^^JIJ-^TjLJIj f^. ?Of!
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