 | John Lewis Burckhardt - Arabian Peninsula - 1829 - 522 pages
...take care of it, and who put on, during the night, the new curtain sent from Constantinople, whenever the old one is decayed, or when a new Sultan ascends the throne. The old curtains are sent to Constantinople, and serve to cover the tombs of the sultans and princes.*... | |
 | Andrew Crichton - Arabian Peninsula - 1833 - 476 pages
...business it is to put on during the night the fresh curtain, which is sent from Constantinople whenever the old one is decayed, or when a new sultan ascends the throne. The venerable remnants of this sacred brocade are sent back to the Turkish capital, and serve to cover... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1846 - 732 pages
...take care of it, and who put on during' the night the new curtain sent from Constantinople, whenever the old one is decayed, or when a new sultan ascends the throne. The old curtains are sent to Constantinople, and serve to cover the tombs of the sultans and princes.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 738 pages
...take care of it, and who put on during the night the new curtain sent from Constantinojile, whenever the old one is decayed, or when a new sultan ascends the throne. The old curtains are sent to Constantinople, and serve to cover the tombs of the sultans and princes.... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1855 - 456 pages
...outrage caused the celebrated " affair of the Elephant." (See D'Herbelot, BM. Or. v. " Abrahah.") f Burckhardt, with his usual accuracy, asserts that...year. The Damascus caravan conveys, together with itsMahmal or emblem of royalty, the new Kiswah (or " garment") when required for the tomb. It is put... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1857 - 458 pages
...resembled the round stoppers of glass, used for the humbler sorts of decanters, but I never saw it quite * Burckhardt, with his usual accuracy, asserts that...year. The Damascus caravan conveys, together with its Mahmal or emblem of royalty, the new Kiswah (or " garment ") when required for the tomb. It is put... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - Travelers - 1859 - 396 pages
...historian of the city, was formerly changed every six years, and is now renewed by the Porte whenever the old one is decayed, or when a new sultan ascends the throne, none but the chief eunuchs, the attendants of the mosque, are permitted to enter. This holy sanctuary... | |
 | Arabian Peninsula - 1872 - 354 pages
...historian of the city, was formerly changed every six years, and is now renewed by the Porte whenever the old one is decayed, or when a new Sultan ascends the throne, none but the chief eunuchs, the attendants of the mosque, are permitted to enter. This holy sanctu-... | |
 | Arabian Peninsula - 1874 - 368 pages
...historian of the city, was formerly changed every six years, and is now renewed by the Porte whenever the old one is decayed, or when a new Sultan ascends the throne, none but the chief eunuchs, the attendants of the mosque, are permitted to enter. This holy sanctuary... | |
 | Richard F. Burton, Sir Richard Francis Burton - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 490 pages
...Shi'ahs persist in practising and applauding it, and the man who can boast at Shiraz of having defiled Abu Bakr's, Omar's, or Osman's tomb becomes at once...eunuchs, who enter the baldaquin by its Northern gate at flight time, and there is a superstitious story amongst the people that they guard their eyes with... | |
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Burckhardt, with his usual accuracy, asserts that a new curtain is sent when the old one is decayed, or when a new Sultan ascends the throne, and those authors err who, like Maundrell, declare the curtain to be removed every year. The Damascus Caravan... 