Life in Morocco and glimpses beyond (1905) (14577396517)

Identifier: lifeinmoroccogli00meakuoft (find matches)
Title: Life in Morocco and glimpses beyond
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Meakin, Budgett
Subjects: Morocco
Publisher: London Chatto & Windus
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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danworld. The majority satisfy their consciences byworking off the whole five sets at once. But thatcry! I hear it still; as one voice fails anothercarries on the strain in ever varying cadence, eachrepeating it to the four quarters of the heavens. It was yet early in the morning when the firstcall of the day burst on the stilly air ; the sun hadnot then risen oer the hill-tops, nor had his first,soft rays dispelled the shadows of the night. Only 70 LIFE IN MOROCCO the rustling of the wind was heard as it died amongthe tree-tops—that wind which was a gale lastnight. The hurried tread of the night-guard goingon his last—perhaps his only—round before re-turning home, had awakened me from dreamingslumbers, and I was about to doze away into thatsweetest of sleeps, the morning nap, when thedistant cry broke forth. Pitched in a high, clearkey, the Muslim confession of faith was heard; La ilaha il Al-lah; wa Mohammed er-rasoolAl-l-a-h ! Could ever bell send thrill like that ?I wot not.
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VIITHE WOMEN-FOLK Teach not thy daughter letters ; let her not live on the roof. Moorish Proverb. Of no country in the world can it more truly besaid than of the Moorish Empire that the socialcondition of the people may be measured by thatof its women. Holding its women in absolutesubjection, the Moorish nation is itself held in sub-jection, morally, politically, socially. The proverbheading this chapter, implying that women shouldnot enjoy the least education or liberty, expressesthe universal treatment of the weaker sex amongMohammedans. It is the subservient position ofwomen which strikes the visitor from Europe morethan all the oriental strangeness of the local customsor the local art and colour. Advocates of therestriction of the rights of women in our ov/n land,and of the retention of disabilities unknown tomen, who fail to recognize the justice and invaria-bility of the principle of absolute equality in rightsand liberty between the sexes, should investigatethe state of things