The Druses of the Lebanon: Their Manners, Customs, and History, with a Translation of Their Religious Code (Classic Reprint)

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FB&C Limited, 15 mars 2018 - 446 pages
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Her people so that I have had facilities for my work which no mere traveller is ever likely to obtain. Being conversant with Arabic, and the different dialects spoken in the country, I have mingled freely among the mountain tribes, always upon terms of the greatest intimacy. I have partaken freely of their hospitality, not as a stranger but a friend. I have learnt to appreciate their Emirs and Akals by daily intercourse with them; and thus living among their people, their land my birth-place and the abode of.

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