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Bismya (Paperback)
Edgar James Banks
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R871
R733
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for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:
CHAPTER III THE PARTING IT is only in the larger of the Turkish
cities, where you hardly know your next-door neighbor, and where
people of the same religious faith collect in quarters, that the
Moslem and the Christian cannot live in peace together. In the
country village, where everybody knows the secret thoughts of his
neighbor, the feeling is no less kindly than between the members of
the different churches of a Christian country town. The Moslem
peasant counts his beads; the Christian, like the Moslem,
prostrates himself in prayer. Allah and Elohim were originally the
same name of the same God, revealed to the one through the prophet
Mohammed, to the other through Christ. The Christian children play
with the little Moslems in the courtyard of the mosque, and the
little Moslems join their Christian comrades in their games
aboutthe holy well, and drink the holy water. The Moslem buys his
goods of the Christian merchant, and the merchant trusts him when
he cannot pay. Moslem and Christian work together in the field, and
when their labor is over, sit side by side in the inn to listen to
the storyteller. The one never asks the other whether he be Moslem
or Christian; and the friendship existing between them is often
quite as enduring as if they worshiped together. All this was true
of the people of Ak Hissar, and their unity of purpose and unity of
labor brought flourishing days to the little village. Herant had
his full share in the general prosperity; for his mulberry trees
throve, his business increased, and he became known throughout the
country, even as far as Constantinople, as a successful raiser and
buyer of cocoons. It was he who produced the silk for the beautiful
rugs and hangings for the Sultan's palace at Yildiz, and for the
presents which His Majesty was plea...
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingA AcentsAcentsa A-Acentsa Acentss Legacy Reprint Series.
Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks,
notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this
work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of
our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's
literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of
thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of intere
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