In Morocco

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Edith Wharton. In Morocco

In Morocco

Table of Contents

PREFACE

I

II

NOTE

PREFACE. I. RABAT AND SALÉ. II. VOLUBILIS, MOULAY IDRISS AND MEKNEZ. III. FEZ. IV. MARRAKECH. V. HAREMS AND CEREMONIES. VI. GENERAL LYAUTEY'S WORK IN MOROCCO. VII. A SKETCH OF MOROCCAN HISTORY. VIII. NOTE ON MOROCCAN ARCHITECTURE. IX. BOOKS CONSULTED. INDEX. ILLUSTRATIONS

FEZ ELBALI FROM THE RAMPARTS. GENERAL VIEW FROM THE KASBAH OF THE OUDAYAS—RABAT. INTERIOR COURT OF THE MEDERSA OF THE OUDAYAS—RABAT. ENTRANCE OF THE MEDERSA—SALÉ. MARKET-PLACE OUTSIDE THE TOWN—SALÉ. CHELLA—RUINS OF MOSQUE—SALÉ. THE WESTERN PORTICO OF THE BASILICA OF ANTONIUS PIUS—VOLUBILIS. MOULAY IDRISS. THE MARKET-PLACE—MOULAY IDRISS. MARKET-PLACE ON THE DAY OF THE RITUAL DANCE OF THE HAMADCHAS—MOULAY IDRISS. THE MARKET-PLACE PROCESSION OF THE CONFRATERNITY OF THE HAMADCHAS—MOULAY IDRISS. GATE: "BAB-MANSOUR"—MEKNEZ. THE RUINS OF THE PALACE OF MOULAY-ISMAEL—MEKNEZ. FEZ ELDJID. A REED-ROOFED STREET—FEZ. THE NEDJARINE FOUNTAIN—FEZ. THE BAZAARS: A VIEW OF THE SOUK EL ATTARINE AND THE QUAISARYA—FEZ. THE "LITTLE GARDEN" IN BACKGROUND, PALACE OF THE BAHIA—MARRAKECH. THE GREAT COURT, PALACE OF THE BAHIA—MARRAKECH. APARTMENT OF THE GRAND VIZIER'S FAVORITE, PALACE OF THE BAHIA—MARRAKECH. A FONDAK—MARRAKECH. MAUSOLEUM OF THE SAADIAN SULTANS SHOWING THE TOMBS—MARRAKECH. THE SULTAN OF MOROCCO UNDER THE GREEN UMBRELLA. A CLAN OF MOUNTAINEERS AND THEIR CAÏD. THE SULTAN ENTERING MARRAKECH IN STATE. WOMEN WATCHING A PROCESSION FROM A ROOF. A STREET FOUNTAIN—MARRAKECH. GATE OF THE KASBAH OF THE OUDAYAS—RABAT. MEDERSA BOUANYANA—FEZ. THE PRAYING-CHAPEL IN THE MEDERSA EL ATTARINE—FEZ. INTERIOR COURT OF THE MEDERSA—SALÉ. THE GATE OF THE PORTUGUESE—MARRAKECH. MAP. THE PART OF MOROCCO VISITED BY MRS. WHARTON. I

RABAT AND SALÉ. I. LEAVING TANGIER

II

THE TRAIL TO EL-KSAR

III

EL-KSAR TO RABAT

IV

THE KASBAH OF THE OUDAYAS

V

ROBINSON CRUSOE'S "SALLEE"

VI

CHELLA AND THE GREAT MOSQUE

II

VOLUBILIS, MOULAY IDRISS AND MEKNEZ. I. VOLUBILIS

II

MOULAY IDRISS

III

MEKNEZ

III

FEZ. I. THE FIRST VISION

II

FEZ ELDJID

III

FEZ ELBALI

IV

EL ANDALOUS AND THE POTTERS' FIELD

V

MEDERSAS, BAZAARS AND AN OASIS

VI

THE LAST GLIMPSE

IV

MARRAKECH. I. THE WAY THERE

II

THE BAHIA

III

THE BAZAARS

IV

THE AGDAL

V

ON THE ROOFS

VI

THE SAADIAN TOMBS

V

HAREMS AND CEREMONIES. I. THE CROWD IN THE STREET

II

AÏD-EL-KEBIR

III

THE IMPERIAL MIRADOR

IV

IN OLD RABAT

V

IN FEZ

VI

IN MARRAKECH

VI

GENERAL LYAUTEY'S WORK IN MOROCCO. I

II

III

THE WORK OF THE FRENCH PROTECTORATE, 1912–1918

PORTS

COMMERCE. COMPARATIVE TABLES

ROADS BUILT

RAILWAYS BUILT

LAND CULTIVATED

JUSTICE

EDUCATION

MEDICAL AID

VII

A SKETCH OF MOROCCAN HISTORY

I

THE BERBERS

II

PHENICIANS, ROMANS AND VANDALS

III

THE ARAB CONQUEST

IV

ALMORAVIDS AND ALMOHADS

V

THE MERINIDS

VI

THE SAADIANS

VII

THE HASSANIANS

VIII

NOTE ON MOROCCAN ARCHITECTURE. I

II

III

IV

IX

BOOKS CONSULTED

INDEX

Отрывок из книги

Edith Wharton

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Below the gate the ground slopes away, bare and blazing, to a hollow where a little blue-green minaret gleams through fig-trees, and fragments of arch and vaulting reveal the outline of a ruined mosque.

Was ever shade so blue-black and delicious as that of the cork-tree near the spring where the donkey's water-cans are being filled? Under its branches a black man in a blue shirt lies immovably sleeping in the dust. Close by women and children splash and chatter about the spring, and the dome of a saint's tomb shines through lustreless leaves. The black man, the donkeys, the women and children, the saint's dome, are all part of the inimitable Eastern scene in which inertia and agitation are so curiously combined, and a surface of shrill noise flickers over depths of such unfathomable silence.

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