. An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians, written in Egypt during the years 1833, -34, and -35, partly from notes made during a former visit to that country in the years 1825-28 . h), as rivals of the Abbasees, wore a whitecostume. El-Melik El-Ashraf Shaaban, a Sultan ofEgypt (who reigned from the year of the Flight 764 to778, or 1362 to 1376), was the first who orderedthe shereefs to distinguish themselves by the greenturban and dress. Some darwecshes of the sect of theRifaees, and a few, but very few, other Muslims, weara turban of black woollen stuff, or of a ver
. An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians, written in Egypt during the years 1833, -34, and -35, partly from notes made during a former visit to that country in the years 1825-28 . h), as rivals of the Abbasees, wore a whitecostume. El-Melik El-Ashraf Shaaban, a Sultan ofEgypt (who reigned from the year of the Flight 764 to778, or 1362 to 1376), was the first who orderedthe shereefs to distinguish themselves by the greenturban and dress. Some darwecshes of the sect of theRifaees, and a few, but very few, other Muslims, weara turban of black woollen stuff, or of a very deep olive-coloured (almost black) muslin ; but that of the Copts,Jews, &c. is generally of black or blue muslin or are not many different forms of turbans now wornin Egypt: that worn by most of the servants is veryformal. The kind common among the middle andhigher classes of the tradesmen and other citizens of themetropolis and large towns is also very formal, but lessso than that just before alluded to. The Turkish turbanworn in Egypt is of a more elegant mode. The Syrianis distinguished by its width. The Ulama, and men ofreligion and letters in general, used to wear, as some. Tlie Mukleh. 60 THE MODERN EGYPTIANS. do Still, one particularly wide and formal, called a*mukleh. The turban is much respected. In thehouses of the more wealthy classes, there is usually achair* on which it is j)laced at night. This is oftensent with the furniture of a bride ; as it is common fora lady to have one uj)on which to place her kind of chair is never used for any other an instance of the respect paid to the turban, one of myfriends mentioned to me that an lilinif being tin-own oifhis donkey in a street of this city, his mukleh fell off,and rolled along for several yards: whereupon the j)as-sengers ran after it, crying, • Lift up the crown of El-Islam! while the poor alim, whom no one came toassist, called out in anger, * Lift up the slieykhX of El-I
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