. Cook's practical guide to Algeria and Tunisia . ches covered with arabesques. Near the Porte de Fez is a small mosque, the Djama=Oulad=el = Imam, with a rectangular minaret55 feet high, the sides covered with well-preserved glazed tiles. These are all the mosques of ancient Tlemcen that remainwithin tJte walls. The mosque of Sidi=el=Haloui, the confectioner saint, lies immediatelyoutside the walls (open 9 to 11 and to ). This saint 170 ALGERIA AND TUNISIA. was born at Seville, in Spain, where he was a kadi. Hestarted on a pilgrimage to Sidi Okba and came back toTlemcen, where he set
. Cook's practical guide to Algeria and Tunisia . ches covered with arabesques. Near the Porte de Fez is a small mosque, the Djama=Oulad=el = Imam, with a rectangular minaret55 feet high, the sides covered with well-preserved glazed tiles. These are all the mosques of ancient Tlemcen that remainwithin tJte walls. The mosque of Sidi=el=Haloui, the confectioner saint, lies immediatelyoutside the walls (open 9 to 11 and to ). This saint 170 ALGERIA AND TUNISIA. was born at Seville, in Spain, where he was a kadi. Hestarted on a pilgrimage to Sidi Okba and came back toTlemcen, where he settled as a sweetmeat baker. The sweet-meats made by him are called Halouat in Arabic, and thename El Haloui was given him on that account. He usedto preach to the children, and as a great crowd of spectatorscollected round his bon-bon stall, soon the whole town got toknow him and worship him. The Sultan, hearing of his greatpopularity, called him to the palace as tutor to his three appointment, however, gave umbrage to the Grand Vizier,. Mosqi e in Sim Haloui. \. who had him tried as a sorcerer, condemned and beheadedoutside the gates. The evening of the execution, which hadaroused the public mind to exasperation, the following miracleis said to have taken place : The Bouab, or doorkeeper, wascrying as usual to the infidels to come in before the doors wereclosed, when a- sepulchral voice was heard exclaiming: Closethy gates, Bouab; there is no one without, save El Haloui theoppressed ! For seven days the same voice was heard uttering(he same sentence. The people openly murmured. The Sultancame himself to the gates of the mosque, and returned to the DISTRICTS WEST OF ALGIERS. 171 palace, saying : / wished to hear ; I ha/ve hea/rd / The nextmorning the Grand Vizier was pu1 to death on the very spotwhere El Haloui had been beheaded; his treatment was tobe buried alive in a block of mortal-, like San Geronimo,tln> Spanish martyr. To appease the spirit of the sai
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