Word: medressas
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...home is gone, but she knows the way to her niece's house, where she and her daughters receive an enthusiastic welcome. Attiya pays a quick visit to her maternal uncle, Muhammad Larik, a 70-year-old maulana, or religious scholar. He tried to persuade Attiya to attend a medressa when she was a rebellious child but, he says now, "it was not her path." Attiya and the girls are almost immediately ushered into the women's quarters of his home. With money from Saudi donors, Larik recently built a mosque across a small field outside his house. He concedes...
...West Gate are breathtaking, as is the all-encompassing view from the Khan's Kunya Ark. Tour the bazaar outside the eastern wall: until 1873 thousands of slaves?Russians, Kurds and Persians?were sold at the pens by the Eastern Gate. Stay at the Hotel Khiva, a converted medressa, costing about $30 per person; call...
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