CHAPTER XIV

101. 2$. candjiar, a kind of Turkish saber, the cross-section of which has the form of an S.

102. 6. Magreb, an Arabie word for "sunset" and '' west," and applied by Arabs to Morocco and to ail northwestern Africa and Spain. ton Magreb is depreciative.

25-29. Léila effrayée. As a rule Mohammedan women musl not allow their featurcs to be seen by mon not wearing turbans — the turban being amongst ail Eastern nations a sign of authority and honor. Women destined to some dignitary must be particularly careful not to be seen by mon. The Koran says (XXI Y, 31): ** Speak to the believing women that they refrain their eyea and observe con-

tinence; and that they display aot thcir ornaments, except those w lu\ li are external; and that they throw their \ cils over their bosoms and display not theii ornaments, except t<> their busbands or their fathers, or their husband's fathers, or thcir sons, or their husband's sons, or their brothcrs, or thcir brothcr's sons, or thcir sistcr's sons, or thcir women, or thcir slaves. . . . And let them not strikc their fcet together so as to discover thcir hidden ornaments (see Isaiah III, 6). And be ye ail turned to God, () ye believers, that it may be well with you." (Cf. also Koran XXXIII, 55.)