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Page 59
But from the platform high above at stated hours one may infallibly hear the
muezzin chant his call to prayer , - “ There is no God but God ! Lo , God is Great ! ”
Perhaps the most interesting mosque of all is that of El Azhar , situated not far
from ...
But from the platform high above at stated hours one may infallibly hear the
muezzin chant his call to prayer , - “ There is no God but God ! Lo , God is Great ! ”
Perhaps the most interesting mosque of all is that of El Azhar , situated not far
from ...
Page 60
All through the spacious areas of the mosque are scattered little knots of students
industriously learning the Koran at the hands of their teachers , or listening to
learned discourses from other sources on the nature and attributes of God ; for
the ...
All through the spacious areas of the mosque are scattered little knots of students
industriously learning the Koran at the hands of their teachers , or listening to
learned discourses from other sources on the nature and attributes of God ; for
the ...
Page 81
... human remedy ; treasure - houses of torture , awful to contemplate — yet
above all supremely beautiful as they are supremely terrible . Surely God created
the desert for his peculiar glory ! It is unearthly to look upon shimmering in the
heat .
... human remedy ; treasure - houses of torture , awful to contemplate — yet
above all supremely beautiful as they are supremely terrible . Surely God created
the desert for his peculiar glory ! It is unearthly to look upon shimmering in the
heat .
Page 92
... sorts , and the temples . Each species is so intimately connected with the
religion of the ancient peoples and their ideas of the attributes of their gods that
what is said of these things relates almost equally to both tomb THE OLD
RELIGION.
... sorts , and the temples . Each species is so intimately connected with the
religion of the ancient peoples and their ideas of the attributes of their gods that
what is said of these things relates almost equally to both tomb THE OLD
RELIGION.
Page 94
men who could afford the greater magnificence and the greater precaution
against what the Egyptian dreaded most of all — failure to preserve the body
which God had given and provide an eternal abode for it . But there is evidence
enough to ...
men who could afford the greater magnificence and the greater precaution
against what the Egyptian dreaded most of all — failure to preserve the body
which God had given and provide an eternal abode for it . But there is evidence
enough to ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Egyptian Days |
| Author | Philip Sanford Marden |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin, 1912 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 329 pages |
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