Sometimes when she is able to spend the night with him they are wakened by the three minarets of the city beginning their prayers before dawn. He walks with her through the indigo markets that lie between South Cairo and her home. The beautiful songs of faith enter the air like arrows, one minaret answering another, as if passing on a rumor of the two of them as they walk through the cold morning air, the smell of charcoal and hemp already making the air profound. Sinners in a holy city.
Quotes about cairo (15 Quotes)
My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.
When Sufism was at loggerheads with the legalitarian Islam embodied by the doctors of the Law, known as the fuqaha', according to Henry Corbin ... Ibn Arabi made no secret of his disgust at their stupidity, ignorance, and depravity, and such an attitude was not calculated to win their favor. The tension rose, giving rise to denunciations and arrests our shaikh was in mortal peril. At this critical moment the irreducible antagonism between the spiritual Islam of Sufism and legalitarian Islam became patent. Saved by the intervention of a friendly shaikh, Ibn Arabi had but one concern, to flee far from Cairo and its hateful, bigoted canonists. Where was he to seek refuge He returned to Meca (1207).
We are delighted to start our visit here in Egypt, and here in the heart of old Cairo.
We had met. I had met Shimon Peres in Cairo, in Lisbon before that, before that my colleagues met him in Athens with the participation of the European Union's Javier Solana and we have no objection to meeting him at any time.
Cairo was still feisty, and we thought she'd be a perfect match.
I've seen the reports and, yes, our consular officials from Cairo are currently seeking to confirm those reports and to provide consular assistance to the Australian women, but there are not too many more details available,
I take my line from a remark made by Aubrey Herbert, surveying his fellow members of the intelligence cadre brought together in Cairo in 1914 'Then there's Lawrence, an odd gnome, half cad - with a touch of genius'. AW Lawrence Lawrence's youngest brother and the keeper of the flame for more than half a century thought that was just right.
Enmity in the Arab world for America is because of its policies and makeup won't work, ... An American facelift in Cairo.
The minister of energy and mines leaves tomorrow for Cairo, Egypt, for the extraordinary meeting of OPEC, which will surely decide on that 1.5 million bpd OPEC cut.
Under our commitment to the national agreement made in Cairo to a cooling down period until the end of 2005, the movement announces it has stopped its operations from the Gaza Strip against the Zionist occupation,
With such a young team this year, I thought our best season would be next year. It's going to be a dogfight against Cairo (today). This region is so tough that, on any given night, any team can beat anybody. I think this is one of the top regions in the state.
We are saddened by the death of Sudanese in Cairo today and we extend our condolences to the families of the victims and our sympathies to those who are injured.
I am excited to share my experiences in Cairo. There has been steadily increasing contact with the Arab world by ordinary Americans who are trying to understand America's situation in the world context. I will be an intermediary between these Americans and the Arab world. I hope to ease confusion over what is presumed about Arab-Muslim culture and what is factual.
Why should I allow them to drape it If they want to make propaganda, let them do it somewhere else. They can do it in any other place in Cairo.