And it is not difficult to understand, perhaps, how the spectacle of our troubles, our despairs, our miseries, in these new ways in which our lot is cast, should make them reflect and turn again to the tranquil dream of their ancestors.

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While waiting for the conclusion of the morning studies, we are conducted through some of the dependencies of El-Azhar.

Halls of every epoch, added one to another, go to form a little labyrinth; many contain _Mihrabs_, which, as we know already, are a kind of portico, festooned and denticulated till they look as if covered with rime.