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Excerpt from The Land of the Moors: A Comprehensive Description Religious; Some Moorish Characteristics. - The master passion; Self-control; Fatalism; Endurance; Fellow-feeling; Integrity and lying; Sensuality; Humour; Religion; The Mohammedan Year in Morocco. - Their era and calendar; Moorish feasts and their celebration; Religious orgies; Fasting and sacrifice; Pre-Muslim festivals; Moorish Places of Worship. - Sacredness; Comparison with the East; Typical mosques; Services and calls to prayer; Saint shrines; Preaching; Maintenance; The Prayers of the Moors. - Petitions; Ablutions; Forms of set prayer; Direction; Specimen prayers; Guardian angels; Hours of prayer; Rosaries; Alms, Hospitality and Pilgrimage Among the Moors. - Generosity; Tithes; Almsgiving seasons; Beggars; The retort courteous; Hospitality; Entertaining Europeans; Pilgrim outfits; Education in Morocco. - Primary School; Fees; Holidays; Hours and methods of study; Graduations; 'Varsity life; Colleges; The faculty; Attainments; Books; Moorish Saints and Superstition. - Holy madness; "Lives of the Saints"; Religious orders; Patron saints; The spirit world; The "evil eye"; Charms; Fortune-telling; Magic; Marriage Among the Moors. - How they manage their "love affairs"; Professional match-making; Furnishing the home; The bridal "at home"; The great day; Afterwards; Funeral Rites in Morocco. - Announcement of death; The death wail; Mourning; Last offices; Funerals; Specimen chant; Burial service; Interment; After death; Ethnographical; The Morocco Berbers. - Historical importance; Habitat; Race; Language; Literature, etc.; Physique; Character; Customs; Dress; Dwellings; Food, etc; The Jews of Morocco. - Present condition; Divisions; Sufferings; Feastings; Costume; Subsistence; Character; Hope; History; Jewries; Pages of honour; Folk-lore; The Jewish Year in Morocco. - Religious Festivals; Ritual; Day of Atonement; Feast of Tabernacles; Purim; Passover; Feast of Weeks About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.