Introduction -- From the traveller's notes -- The town -- The yoke -- The island -- The stork -- The bowl -- The hero -- The friend -- The vision -- The warning -- The flight -- The mountain -- From the traveller's notes -- The messenger -- The battle -- The tree -- The costume -- The pilgrim -- The ...
About the Mahmal, the closed rectangular pyramidal canopy taken along on camelback on Egyptian and Syrian pilgrimages to Mecca before Ibn Saud's conquest of the Hejaz in 1925 - a "very curious custom in Islam", the origin and purport of which the present essay undertakes to investigate. "It is very ...
by Seymour Vesey-Fitzgerald., Includes index., Main Heritage Shelves General, KBP144 V47 1931, Book, Item-ID: i10148735, BIB-ID: 1016509, Bibliography: p. [232]-239.
