He has taken to discarding ancient prejudices--doesn't drink or anything like that, but treats his harem almost humanly.

Lets 'em have anything that costs him nothing.

Even sends for a medico when they're sick! Getting lax in his old age! Sent for me a while ago to attend his favorite wife--sixty years old if she's a day, and as proud of him as if he were the king of Jerusalem.
Well--I looked her over, judged she was likely to keep her bed, and did some thinking." "You know their religious law?
A woman can't go to Paradise without special intercession, mainly vicarious.

I found a mullah--that's a Muhammedan priest--who'd do anything for half of nothing.

They most of them will.