Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . i Bab i I Harim). i:t. Staircase leading to thepropriej Ii. Principal saloon (el-Kafa). 15. Khazneb, >urt, I J. Kitchen. I Bake hous*e, 19. Privy. BUILDINGS OF THE MOHAMMEDANS. 187 with a column, and open towards the north. This is called theTaklita Bosh, and is used in temperate weather for the samepurposes as the Mandara. Lastly the Mukad ( PL 1, >), where theproprietor receives visits in summer, is usually raised, like theTakhtaBosh, half the height of the ground-floor above the leve
Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . i Bab i I Harim). i:t. Staircase leading to thepropriej Ii. Principal saloon (el-Kafa). 15. Khazneb, >urt, I J. Kitchen. I Bake hous*e, 19. Privy. BUILDINGS OF THE MOHAMMEDANS. 187 with a column, and open towards the north. This is called theTaklita Bosh, and is used in temperate weather for the samepurposes as the Mandara. Lastly the Mukad ( PL 1, >), where theproprietor receives visits in summer, is usually raised, like theTakhtaBosh, half the height of the ground-floor above the levelof the court, and is adorned with several columns, while below itare small chambers used as store-rooms and for various other pur-poses, and frequently the well with its drawing apparatus. The principal part of the Harem (womens apartments), whichin smaller houses is accessible from the court only by the Bab d-Harim (PL I, 12; II, 3), is the Kaa (PL I. 14). The ceiling ofthe Durkaa is higher than that of the Liwan, and has a dome inthe centre with mushrebiyeh openings. The walls of the Liwan are. 1. Open hall (Taklita Bosh). 2. Cabinet. 3. Door of the Harem. 4. Rooms of the Harem with mushrebiyehs. 5. Magazine. G. Open courts. 7. Guest-chambers. frequently lined with rows of shelves, with valuable porcelain,crystal, or plate. In the larger houses a separate staircase for thewomen-servants ascends from the ground-floor to the upper its way it passes the intervening floor forming their dwelling,which is built over the less important rooms of the ground-floo i 138 ARABIC LANGUAGE. usually Leads direct from the apartments of the pro-mt., the harem (PI. T, 3). At the hack of the building ares, and frequently a mill also. — Jn thecountry, and even at Cairo, the entrance-door is sometimes paintedwith very rude figures of camels, lions, steamboats, etc., whichi ended to thai the owner Lias performed the pil- :.? to Mecca I p. 148 I. X. The Arabic Language. Arabic belongs
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